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ADJUTANT  AND  INSPECTOR  GENERAL'S  OFFICE, 

CONFEDERATE  STATES   ARMY, 

For  the   Year  1863, 
WITH  A  FULL  INDEX/ 

COMPILED  AND  CORRECTED  UNDER  AUTHORITY  OF 
Gen'l  S.  COOPER,  A.  &  L  G, 

By   R.    H.   p.    ROBINSON, 

OF  THE  ADJUTANT  AND  INSPECTOR  GENERAL'S  OFFICE. 


The  Orders  as  they  appear  in  this  book  have  explanatory  notes 
■calling  attention  to  each  Paragraph  or  Order  that  has  been  modified^ 
amended  or  revoked;  and  to  the  Paragraph  and  Order  by  which  th© 
change  has  been  caused. 


RICHMOND: 

A.   MORRIS,  Publishere 

1864, 


Macfarlanb  &  Fbrgusson,  Printers. 


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GENERAL   ORDERS. 


GENEUAL  ORDERS,  j  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Genl's  Ojfick, 

No.  1.  I  jRic7imo«cZ, /a?mary  3, 1863. 

I.  The  following  Orders  aro  published  for  the  information  of 
the  army; 

All  white  ma?e  citizens  of  the  Confederate  States,  between  the 
ages  of  18  and  40,  who  are  nut  exempt  by  the  act  of  October  11th, 
1802,  are  liable  to  conscription  ;  and  all  such  as  have  been  already 
enrolled  and  mustered,  will  l>e  held  as  though  in  service  of  tba 
Oonfcderate  States,  until  otherwise  ordered.  Exemption  will  not 
take  place  until  after  enrollment,  when  enrolling  officers  will 
^rant  certificates  of  exemption,  in  all  cases  clearly  within  the 
cleaning  of  the  ?vCt.  All  doubtful  cases  for  exemption  well  be 
referred,  for  decision,  to  Commandants  of  Camps  of  Instruction, 
and  if  necessary,  by  them  to  the  Chief  of  the  Bureau  of  Con- 
ecription  in  Richm>ond.  Such  cases  will  not  be  required  to  report 
in  person  to  the  camp  of  instruction  until  fiual  action  ia  had  oa 
the  same. 

II.  Enrolling  oScers  are  required  to  be  vigilant  in  the  diseharg« 
of  their  duties  within  the  district  confided  to  them,  not  only  in 
respect  to  the  enrolmctitof  conscripts,  but  also  in  the  apprehen- 
sion and  arrest  of  stragglers  and  deserters  from  the  army.  Com- 
plaints having  been  made  of  harsh  treatment  to  conscripts  by 
enrolling  officers  in  certain  localities,  whicli  treatment  is  <jalcu- 
iated  to  prejiiidice  the  cause  of  the  Confederate  States,  by  en-cour- 
aging  opposition  to  the  acts  of  conscription,  it  will  be  the  duty  of 
Commandants  of  Camps  of  Instruction  to  report  to  the  Secretary 
of  War,  for  discharge  from  conscript  service,  any  officer  who  shall 
offend  in  this  particular.  It  is  required  of  all  enrolling  officers 
to  encourage  and  promote  a  good  understanding  with  the  people 
of  the  district  in  which  they  may  be  serving  :  and  it  is  impressed 
on  them,  that  firmness  of  purpose,  tempered  with  kindness  and 
forbearance,  will  best  promote  the  objects  to  be  attained. 

III.  Enrolling  officers  will  furnish  to  Commandants  of  Camps 
o{  Instruction,  at  the  end  of  each  month,  a  complete  roll  of  the 
conscripts  made  by  tlicm  during  the  uionth.     Such  rolls  will  also 


smbrace  the  nnmes  of  persons  who  have  been  enrolled,  and  ex- 
empted within  that  period.  One  copy  of  these  rolls  will  be  im- 
mediately forwarded  by  the  Commandants  of  the  Camps  of  In- 
struction to  the  Chief  of  tlie  Bureau  of  Conscription  in  Kich- 
mond,  for  file  and  future  reference. 

IV.  All  commissioned  officers  between  the  ages  of  18  and  40, 
who  have  become  dit-xonnected  with  the  anny,  by  the  operation 
of  General  Orders,  Nus.  48  and  96,  of  18t>2,  ov  by  reason  of  non- 
re-eleciion,  resignation  or  dismissal,  unless  actually  disabled  (of 
which  they  must  furnish  evidence),  are  subject  to  coTiscription  ; 
and  while  substitutes  between  the  above  ages,  and  who  are  not 
embraced  in  the  provisions  of  the  exemption  law,  will  be  held  in 
service  to  the  end  of  the  terms  for  which  they  have  engaged,  \he 
principals  within  the  same  ;.in:,os,  for  whom  the  substitute  may 
have  engaged  to  serve,  will  be  liable  to  conscription. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,]  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'j/s  Orncs, 

No.  2.  )  lUclimond,  January  2,  18G3. 

I.  The  following  Orders  are  published  for  the  information  ant5 
guidance  of  all  concerned  : 

Recognizing  the  necessity  of  officers  of  rail  roads  having  full 
control  of  their  business,  in  order  to  insure  safety  and  dispatch 
in  transportation,  military  ofiicers  are  prcdiibited  from  interfering 
with  the  engines,  cars,  running  of  trains,  or  with  the  control  and 
management,  in  any  way,  of  rail  roada. 

II.  When  transportation  of  troops  or  freight  by  rail  road   >s  i 
necessary,  a  quartermaster  or  otiier  authorized  oflicer  shall  make  1 
requisition  for  the  same  upon  the  superintendent  or  proper  officer 
of  the  rail  road,  furnishing  the  necessary  evidence  of  transports-  . 
tion,  and  delivering  the  troops  or  freight  to  be  transported.  / 

III.  In  the  event  that  more  freight  is  to  be  transported  over 
anyroad  than  the  road  has  the  ability  to  carry  pr(mptly,  the 
officer  furnishing  evidence  of  transportation  wiirindicate  to  the 
rail  road  officer  what  shall  take  prccodoncc.  In  the  absence  of 
any  special  order  as  to  what  freight  shall  go  first,  the  rail  road 
officer  shall  be  governed  by  any  General  Order  the  Quartermaster 
General  may  issue  in  regard  thereto. 


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IV.  Where  troops  or  freight  is  to  bo  moved  out  of  tho  usual 
l-outine  of  a  rail  road,  the  officer  having  charge  of  guch  move-, 
ment  vrill  fix  vfith  tho  superintendent,  or  other  officer  of  the  road 
on  vrhich  the  movement  is  to  be  made,  the  day  and  hour  of  de- 
parture, and  when  go  fixed,  the  troops  or  freight  must  be  ready  at 
the  appointed  time. 

V.  In  tho  event  of  any  military  necessity  for  an  unusual  move- 
ment at  any  particular  point,  the  commanding  oflScer  at  such  post 
will  communicate  fully  the  character  and  extent  of  service  to  the 
principal  officer  of  the  road  or  roads  from  which  it  is  required, 
and  ask  the  personal  supervision  of  the  proper  rail  road  officers 
*o  the  duty. 

VI.  Quartermasters  and  commieFarieo  will  exercise  discretion 
in  shipping  freight  not  wanted  for  immediate  use,  and  that  may 
be  stored  at  safe  and  convenient  points,  taking  care  not  to  block 
up  roads  and  thereby  impede  transportation. 

YII.  When  it  is  necessary  to  send  a  special  messenger  witli 
freight,  such  messenger  must  travel  with  the  freight  placed  in 
his  charge,  and  his  transportation  shall  be  so  specified  on  its  face, 
in  order  to  prevent  him  from  traveling  in  any  other  way. 

VIII.  Enrolling  officers  will  permit  Gon8cri|')ts,  enrolled  while 
in  the  employment  of  rail  roads,  to  remain  at  their  duties  until 
£o\.  AVilliam  JM.  Wadley,*  A.  A.  G.,  decide  as  to  who  of  th«m  it 
is  necessary  should  be  detailed  for  service  on  the  road. 

IX.  Any  viohit^iof  these  orders,  or  remissness  on  the  part 
of  rail  road  oQjdHJjfaDerform  promptly  all  government  trans- 
portation, will  ])8re^^ecl  to  Col.  William  M.  Wadley,^  A.  A.  G., 
who  will  indicate  from  time  to  time  where  his  head  quarters  will 
he. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General* 


UENEllAL  OIlDERS,t  j        Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Orrici, 

No.  3.  )  Bichmond,  January  9,  1863. 

I.  The  attention  of  officers  la  called  to  the  34th  arHcle  of  Army 
Regulations,  and  especially  to  those  paragraphs  of  the  article 

•  Lieut  Col.  F.  W.  Sims  is  now  chief  of  Rail  Road  Bureau,  vice 
Col.  Wndley. 

fSer*  also,  Tar.  VI.  G\  0.  ?S. 


which  relate  to  the  channel  of  military  correspondence.  It  is  no 
exaggeration  to  state  that  nearly  one-third  of  the  correspondence, 
received  at  the  War  Department  and  at  this  office,  from  officers 
of  the  army  and  others  in  the  military  service,  comes  directly 
from  the  writers,  without  passing  through  the  prescribed  channel. 

Therefore,  all  indirect  communication  with  the  department  is 
prohibited  ;  and  -where  it  is  attempted,  either  in  person  or  by  let- 
ter, the  application  will  be  referred  to  the  proper  military  com- 
mander before  action  is  taken  on  it,  and  instructions  will  at  th© 
same  time  be  given  to  bring  the  offender  to  trial  for  violation  of 
the  regulations  and  orders  respecting  military  correspcndence. 
These  regulatwns  were  made  after  long  experience.  They  havo 
been  found  indispensable,  and  must  be  observed. 

II.  Not  oaly  arc  all  papers  and  applications  to  be  forwarded 
through  the  regular  channels  of  communication,  but  the  officers 
through  whom  they  come,  and  who  are  generally  supposed  to  b& 
informed  on  the  merits  of  the  ease  presented,  are  required  to  ex- 
press their  opinions  thereon,  either  in  approval  or  disapproval. 
These  opinions  are  frequently  important  to  the  department,  and 
the  rule  which  prescribes  them  must  not  be  overlooked. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS, )         Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 


] 


No.  4.  )  BicJimond,  January  12,  1863. 

I.  A  Camp  of  Instruction  for  Conscripts  will  be  forthwith  es- 
tablished at  Petersburg,  Virginia.  Ail  persons  liable  to  con- 
scription within  the  following  counties,  will  repair  to  this  camp 
for  enrolment ;  and  all  enrolling  officers  within  said  counties  wili 
hasten  forward  Conscripts  to  the  same  point.  The  following  aro 
the  counties  referred  to,  to  wit :  Greenesville,  Dinwidde,  Bruns- 
wick, Lunenburg,  Mecklenburg,  Halifax,  Charlotte,  Pittsylvania, 
Henry,  Patrick,  Franklin,  Nottoway,  Prince  Edward  and  Camp- 
bell. 

II.  Major  General  French  will  appoint  an  officer  of  his  com- 
mand to  receive  and  muster  into  service  the  troops  called  out  by 
the  Governor  of  Virginia,  in  Special  Orders  of  the  Adjutant 
General  of  the  State,  of  January  9th,  18G3,  as  they  arrive  at 
Petersburg,  and  cause  them  to  be  furnishad  with  subsistence  and 
other  supplies  needed  for  their  erficiency. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjviani  and  Inspector  Oenex'jJ, 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  I         Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 
No.  5.  )  BicJimond,  January  13,  18G3. 

I.  The  following  Ordor  is  published  for  tho  information  of  all 
concerned : 

Exchange  Notice,  No.  4, 

The  following  officers  and  men  have  been  duly  exchanged,  and 
are  hereby  so  declared  : 

1.  All  officers  and  men  captured  in  Kentucky,  TcMnessee,  Ala- 
hama,  Mississinpi,  Georgia,  Florida  and  Somh  Carolina,  up  lo  De« 
oeniber  lOth,  1S02. 

2.  All  ollicers  and  men  captured  in  Missouri,  Kansas,  New  MeX' 
ico,  Arizonia,  Arkansas  and  Louis^iana,  up  to  January  J  3t,  1863. 

3.  The  two  foregoing  sections  apply  not  only  to  officers  and  men 
of  the  Confederate  service,  but  also  to  persons  captured  in  arms  or 
hostile  array  against  the  United  States,  whatever  may  have  been 
the  character  of  the  military  organization  to  which  they  were  at- 
tached, and  whatever  may  have  been  the  terms  of  tho  paroles  given 
by  them.  If  any  are  in  Federal  prisons,  they  are  to  be  immediately 
released  and  delivered  to  the  Confederate  authorities. 

4.  All  persons  who  have  been  captured  on  the  sea  or  sea  coast 
of  the  Confederate  or  United  States,  up  to  December  10th,  1862. 
If  any  such  are  in  Federal  prisons,  they  are  to  be  immediately  re* 
leased  and  delivered  to  the  Confederate  authorities. 

5.  All  Confederate  officers  and  men  who  have  been  delivered  at 
City  Point,  up  to  January  6th,  1863. 

6.  All  Cor.federate  officers  and  men  who  have  been  delivered  at 
Vicksburg,  up  to  December  23d,  1862,  and  including  said  date. 

7.  All  paroled  Confederate  officers  and  men  receipted  for  at 
Vicksburg,  up  to  December  23d,  1862,  and  including  said  date. 

8.  All  Confctlerate  officers  and  men  captured  and  paroled  at 
Frcdttricksburg,  Virginia,  in  December  1862. 

9.  All  Confederate  officers  and  men  captured  and  paroled  at 
Goldsboro',  North  Carolina,  in  December  1862. 

10.  Other  miscellaneous  and  minor  exchanges,  of  v/hich  the  ap« 
propriate  officers  will  be  duly  informed. 

Robert  Ould. 
^gent  of  Exchange. 
Richmond^  January  10,  1S63. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER. 
AcffMant  and  -Insvec'or  General, 


GENERAL  ORDERS,]         Adj't  axl  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Offic]?, 

No.  G.  ]  Richmond,  January  15,  1863. 

I.  The  attention  of  officers  charged  with  the  custody  of  puhlio 
property,  is  called  to  paragraphs  923,  924  and  925,  Army  Regii- 
JatioDs,  ^Yhich  provide  the  mode  of  accounting  for  that  which  is 
JO.--t  or  destroyed,  and  disposing  of  such  as  become  unsuitable  for 
the  service.  No  departure  will  be  allowed  from  the  requirements 
therein  contained,  and  all  officers  having  public  property  in  their 
possession  will  be  held  to  a  strict  accountability. 

ir.  The  appointment  of  agents  to  purchase  wool  by  any  officer, 
except  the  Quartermaster  General,  and  such  officers  as  may  act 
under  ills  authority  and  sanction,  is  hereby  prohibited ;  and  all 
agencies  for  that  purpose,  heretofore  authorized  by  other  officers, 
ifj  revoked, 

!13y  order, 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  ]  Adj't  and  Insp'k  Gen'i/s  OrricE. 

No.  7.  j  BicJimond,  January  19,  1863. 

I.  The  exemption  from  military  service  of  Route  Agents  of  the 
Post  Office  Department,  having  been  claimed  by  the  Postmaster 
General,  as  executive  OLUcers  of  the  Confederate  JStates,  under  the 
act  of  October  11,  1862,  is  recognized.  Such  persons,  if  within 
conpoript  ages,  will  be  enrolled,  and  furniyhed  with  certilicates 
exempting  them  during  the  continuance  of  their  appointments. 
In  all  cases  v.'here  the  appointment  fails,  or  the  term  tiiereof 
expires,  the  party  is  required  to  report  himself  to  the  officer  by 
whom  he  was  enrolled,  or  if  ho  cannot  be  found,  to  the  Adjutant 
and  Inspector  General  at  Richmond. 

II.  Hereafter  all  field  artillery,  belonging  to  any  separate  army, 
will  be  parked  together  under  the  direction  of  the  General,  or 
other  chief  officer  cf  artillery  having  control  of  the  same,  to  be 
distributed,  when  required,  according  to  the  judgment  of  the 
Commanding  General  of  such  army. 

III.  Cavalry  companies  will,  as  far  as  practicable,  bo  kept  with 
their  respective  regiments.  The  practice  of  detailing  such 
(Companies,  or  parts  of  them,  as  couriers  and  guides  for  the  Head 
Quarters  of  General  Officers,  will  be  discontinued.    Their  places 


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can  be  supplied  by  such  infantry  soldiers  as  may  be  able  to  fur- 
nish themselves  with  horses,  and  can  be  detailed  for  this  duty 
by  the  General  from  their  respective  commands — the  number  not 
to  exceed  six  for  the  commander  of  any  corps,  four  for  the  com- 
mander of  division,  and  two  for  commander  of  brigade. 

IV.  Medical  officers,  in  furnishing  certificates  of  disability  to 
disabled  and  invalid  officers,  will  confine  themselves  to  the  estab- 
lished FoKMs  of  the  service,  provided  for  such   certificates,  and 
■will  hereafter  abstain  from  recommending  them  for  ligld  duty. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  ]  Adj't  and  Insp'r  GeVl's  Office, 

No.  8.  ]  Rklimond,  January,  20, 1863. 

I.  Applications  for  staff  appointments  to  fill  vacancies,  whether 
occurring  in  Divisions,  Brigades,  Regiments  or  Battalions,  must 
in  all  cases,  besides  being  sent  through  the  proper  channels,  be 
accompanied  by  a  statement  showing  how  such  vacancies  have 
occurred  ;  and  until  the  previous  incumbent  shall  have  been 
properly  disposed  of,  and  bis  absence  accounted  for  to  the  satis- 
faction of  this  Department,  no  other  appointment  will  be  made.-" 

II.  No  transfers  of  bonded  officers  from  the  positions  to  which 
they  have  been  originally  assigned,  shall  be  recognized,  until 
ratified  by  this  Department. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,]  WAR  DEPARTxMENT, 

y         Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 
No.  9.  )  Richmond,  January  22,  1863. 

I.  Pursuant  to  section  8  of  an  "act  to  provide  for  the  public 
defence,"  approved  April  16th,  1862,  men  who  are  mustered  into 
service,  bringing  with  them  their  own  arms,  are  entitled  to  one 
dolhir  per  month  for  the  use  of  the  same,  from  the  date  of  mus- 
ti-ring  into  service.  Should  they  prefer  to  receive  the  full  value 
of  the  arms,  the  same  will  be  fixed  by  the  mustering  officer  at 
any  muster,  according  to   the  value  of  arms  fixed  by  General 

•See  al^oPar.  YII..  G.  0.  28. 


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Orders,  No.  78.  In  either  case,  the  fact  will  be  noted  on  the 
muster  roll  by  the  mustering  officer;  with  a  statement  of  the  value 
of  the  arm,  or  of  the  amount  due  per  month,  as  compensation  for 
the  use  thereof.  The  sums  so  due  for  arms,  or  use  of  arms,  will 
be  paid  by  the  brigade,  division,  or  other  ordnance  officer,  and 
Buch  payment  noted  on  the  muster  roll. 

Payment  for  the  use  of  arms  will  not  be  made  oftener  than 
once  in  six  months. 

II.  In  like  manner,  cavalry  equipments  brought  into  service, 
will  be  valued  by  the  mustering  oflScer,  and  the  value  entered 
upon  the  muster  roll,  and  paid  for  at  the  following  rates  : 

For  a  good  serviceable  saddle,  from  $  15  to  $  20 

For  a  good  sa<ldle  blanket,  ♦'    $    3  to  $    4 

For  a  good  bridle,  "    $    3  to  $    5 

For  a  good  halter,  "    $    2  to  $    3 

And  minor  articles,  at  the  discretion  of  the  mustering  officer. 

III.  General  Orders,  No.  101,  last  series  from  this  office,  are 
amended,  so  as  to  allow  that  the  two  surgeons  to  be  employed  to 
examine  conscripts  in  each  congressional  district,  maybe  selected 
from  the  districts  in  which  they  are  to  act,  when  surgeons  cannot 
be  obtained  from  other  congressional  districts. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General* 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  )         Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen^l's  Office. 

No.  10.  3  Richmond,  January  24,  1863. 

The  following  Orders  are  published  for  the  information  of  all 
concerned : 

I.  The  duties  of  signal  officers  are  confined  to  those  bearing 
commissions  as  such,  appointed  under  the  acts  of  Congress, 
approved  April  19,  1862,  and  September  27,  1862. 

n.  To  any  general  officer  requiring  a  signal  officer  and  entitled 
thereto,  one  will  be  assigned  by  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector 
General. 

III.    All  signal  officers  are  required  to  make  their  reports, 
returns,  &c.,  through  the  senior  signal  officer  on  duty  at  the  seat 
of  government,  and  paragraph  IX,  General  Orders,  No.  40,  1862, 
must  be  more  strictly  observed. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


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GENERAL  ORDERS,]         Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office. 
No,  11.  j  EicJwiond,  January  27,  1863. 

The  Military  Courts,  appointed  and  organized  under  the  act 
approved  October  9th,  1862,  -will  be  governed  and  controlled  as 
other  Courts  Martial,  bj  the  Articles  of  War  and  Regulations  of 
the  Army,  in  connection  with  the  aforesaid  act  of  October  9, 1862. 

Their  proceedings -will,  therefore,  be  subject  to  review  by  the  Com- 
manding General  of  the  army  corps  to  which  they  are  attached, 
who,  by  the  decision  of  the  President,  is  the  proper  reviewing 
officer  of  all  such  proceedings,  under  the  provisions  of  the  law 
and  the  Articles  of  War.  The  original  proceedings  of  these 
Courts,  after  final  action  is  had  on  them,  will  bo  trans^mitted  to 
the  oflico  of  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector  General,  agreeably  to 
the  90th  Article  of  War. 


By  order. 


S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General, 


GENERAL  ORDERS,]         Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 
No.  12.  j  Bichmond,  Jaiiuanj  28,  1863. 

I.  Candidates  for  appointments  of  artillery  officers  for  ord- 
nance duty,  who  have  passed  their  examinations  at  the  head 
quarters  ot  any  army,  army  corps,  or  department,  may  be  placed 
on  ordnance  duty  as  acting  ordnance  officers.  The  number  so 
placed  on  duty  shall  not  exceed  one-half  of  the  whole  number 
passed  there,  and  shall  be  taken  from  the  head  of  the  list,  with- 
out reference  to  the  grade  for  which  they  are  recommended. 

Acting  ordnance  officers,  so  placed  on  duty,  shall  be  entitled  to 
pay  as  first  lieutenants,  if  recommended  for  that,  or  higher  grade, 
and  as  second  lieutenants,  if  not  recommended  for  higher  grade. 

Commissions  will  be  issued  as  soon  as  the  examinations  are 
completed  in  all  the  armies,  and  will  be  for  grades  and  dates  to 
correspond  with  the  general  roll  of  merit  established  by  the  ex- 
aminers. 

II.  The  quartermaster's  deportment  will  issue  to  officers  of  the 
army,  on  duty  enrolling  conscripts,  such  fuel  and  stationery, 
within  the  limits  prescribed  by  existing  regulations  for  allow- 
ances to  public  offices,  as  shall  bo  certified  by  those  officers  to  be 
indispensable  for  the  proper  discharge  of  their  duties. 

Tiio  legitimate  expendea  of  the  perfonnaii^c  of  such  duty  will 


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be  paid,  in  tlie  case  of  enrolling  officers  not  commiesioned,  upon 
accounts  approved  bj  the  Commandant  of  Conscripts  for  the 
State,  or  Commander  of  Camp  of  Instruction. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  ]  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 


No.  13. 


BicJimond,  January/  31,  18G3. 


I.  The  following  Arsenals,  Armories,  Depots,  &c.,  are  imme- 
diately under  charge  of  the  War  Department;  and  its  orders  will 
be  given  directly  through  the  Ordnance  Bureau,  viz  : 


Richmond  Arsenal, 
*'  Armory, 

FayetteviUe  Arsenal  and  Armory, 
Charleston  Arsenal, 
Augusta  Arsenal  and  Powder  Works, 
Macon  Arsenal, 

*'       Armory, 

"       Laboratory,  •    . 

Columbus  Arsenal, 
Atlanta  Arsenal,    . 
Mount  Yernon  Arsenal,     . 
Montgomery  Arsenal, 
Selma  Arsenal, 
Jackson  Arsenal,    . 
Greensboro'  Depot, 
Danville  Depot, 
Lynchburg  Depot, 
Little  Rock  Arsenal, 
Texas  Arsenal, 


Richmond,  Virginia. 

Fayetteville,  N.  C. 
Charleston,  S.  C. 
Augusta,  Ga. 
Macon,  Ga. 


.  Cclumbus,  Ga. 

.  Atlanta,  Ga. 

.  Mt.  Vernon,  Ala. 

.  Montgomery,  Ala. 

.  Selma,  Ala.  ^ 

.  Jackson,  Miss. 

.  Greensboro',  N.  C. 

.  Danville,  Va. 

.  Lynchburg,  Va. 

.  Little  Rock,  Ark. 

.  San  Antonio,  Texas. 

II.  The  stores  fabricated  and  deposited  at  these  posts,  are  to 
bo  drawn  out  on  requisitions,  as  designated  in  section  V,  Ord- 
nance Regulations. . 

III.  Officers  stationed  at  the  Arsenals  and  Depots  will,  on  their 
first  arrival,  report  in  person  or  by  letter  to  the  Commanding 
General  of  the  Department,  and  will  obtain  leave  of  absence 
from  him  ;  but  while  liable  to  requisitions  made  upon  the  Arse- 
nal or  Armory,  as  provided  above,  are  subject  to  orders  only 
from  the  War  Department,  through  the  Ordnance  Bureau. 

IV.  The  Quartermasters'  Depots  at  Augusta,  Atlanta  and 
Columbus,  Georgia,  and  at  Montgomery  and  Huntsville,  Ala- 


±() 

bama,  having  been  established  by  the  direction  of  the  War  De- 
partment, to  supply  the  necessities  of  the  Army  at  large,  are 
placed  under  the  special  control  of  the  Qiiarterniaster  General, 
though  subject  to  the  inspection  of  the  Commanding  Officers  of 
the  Departments  in  -which  they  are  located.  Issues  from  these 
Depots  will  be  made  by  order  of  the  Quartermaster  General,  upon 
requisitions  of  Chief  Quartermasters,  approved  by  Commanding 
Generals. 


By  order. 


S.  COOPER, 

Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  ]         Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  14.  j  Richmond,  February  3,  1863. 

I.  The  2d  clause,  paragraph  IV,  of  General  Orders,  No.  72,  of 
1862,  is  hereby  revoked. 

The  4th  clause  of  the  same  paragraph  is  amended  as  follows  : 
On  a  certificate  of  disability,  w^ith  recommendation  for  fur- 
lough or  discharge,  signed  in  due  form  by  examining  board,  and 
approved  by  the  Senior  Surgeon  of  the  post,  tho  Commander  of 
tha  post  may  grant  the  soldier  a  furlough,  not  to  exceed  thirty 
days,  and  submit  the  application  for  a  longer  period  to  the 
General  to  whose  command  the  soldier  may  belong;  or  he  may 
refer,  without  granting  the  furlough,  to  the  discretion  of  said. 
Commanding  General.""" 

II.  The  Supprintendent  of  the  Nitre  and  Mining  Bureau  is 
authorized  and  directed  to  enforce  existing  contracts  of  the  gov- 
ernment in  iron,  lead  and  other  munitions.  Where  iron  and 
other  articles  thus  contracted  for,  and  needed  for  the  service,  are 
ascertained  to  have  been  sold  at  private  sale,  or  are  not  promptly 
delivered  according  to  the  terms  and  spirit  of  the  contract,  they 
may  be  taken  wherever  found  ;  and  upon  requisition,  assistance 
shall  be  afforded  by  the  commandant  of  the  nearest  post  or  camp 
of  instruction,  to  the  officer  or  agent  of  the  Mining  Bureau  spe- 
cially charged  with  the  enforcement  of  the  contract. 

When  a  contract  shall  hare  been  persistently  violated,  after  ten 
days'  notice,  all  detailed  or  conscripted  men  will  be  withdrawn, 
and  assigned  to  other  works. 

By  order.  • 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 

*  Revoked  l»y  Par.  VII.  Gen.  Orders,  No.  51. 


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GENERAL  OEDERS,]         Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 
No.  15.  j  Riclimond,  February  6, 1863. 

I.  All  commissioned  officers  of  the  army  in  the  service  of  the 
Confederate  States,  who  are  absent  from  their  respective  com- 
mands without  sufficient  authority,  and  from  whom  satisfactory 
reports  have  not  been  received,  will  be  considered  as  no  longer 
in  service,  thirty  days  after  the  publication  of  this  Order,  when 
their  names  will  be  erased  from  the  returns  of  regiments  and 
corps.  All  quartermasters  [of  the  army,  charged  with  the  pay- 
ment of  troops,  are  hereby  prohibited  from  making  payments  to 
officers  who  do  not  exhibit  sufficient  authority  for  absence  from 
their  proper  commands ;  and  where  any  doubt  exists  in  the  mind 
of  the  paying  officer,  for  want  of  such  authority,  he  will  suspend 
payment,  and  report  the  case  to  this  office,  with  the  name  and 
residence  of  the  officer  so  absent;  and  the  regiment  or  corps  to 
vs'hich  he  belongs. 

II.  Where  occasions  may  arise  in  military  commands,  for 
charges  against  a  disbursing  officer  of  the  army,  arrest  will  be 
stayed  until  a  report  of  the  facts  in  the  case  is  duly  made  to  the 
War  Department,  through  the  office  of  the  Adjutant  and  Inspec- 
tor General ;  and  the  officer  will  continue  to  discharge  his  duties 
until  the  department  shall  take  proper  measures  for  his  relief 
from  duty. 

III.  In  congressional  districts  where  surgeons  cannot  be  "  em- 
ployed" to  complete  the  examining  boards  for  conscripts,  direct- 
ed in  previous  Orders,  the  commandants  of  conscripts  may  con- 
stitute such  boards,  temporarily,  by  medical  officers  under  their 
authority.  By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  )  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  16,  )  Bichmond,  February  7,  1863. 

I.  The  special  measures  instituted  in  the  Circular  from  this 
office,  of  the  8th  of  January,  ultimo,  were  intended  to  aid,  and 
in  no  wise  to  supercede  the  operation  and  rules  of  the  regularly 
established  system  of  conscription.  Reports  have  been  received, 
that  officers  thus  sent  from  the  army  have  been  practically  set- 
ting aside  the  system,  decisions  and  exemptions  established  un- 


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der  the  authority  of  the  Commandants  of  Conscripts  in  the  re- 
spective States,  and  are  neglectinf;  to  make  to  those  officers  any 
returns  of  the  conscripts  gathered  by  them. 

It  is  hereby  ordered,  that  all  officers  acting  under  the  authority 
of  the  Circular  in  question,  shall  refrain  from  interference  with 
any  conscripts  already  in  the  custody  of  the  officers  regularly  on 
conscription  duty,  and  shall  assert  no  claim  over  them,  otherwise 
than  by  estimates  on  the  commandants  for  the  quota  to  which 
their  regiments  shall  be  entitled,  under  the  principle  of  pro  rata 
distribution  ;  also,  that  they  shall  respect  certificates  of  exemp- 
tions issued  by  regular  enrolling  officers,  reporting  for  decision 
of  the  commandants  any  case  in  which  the  exemption  may  ap- 
pear to  them  to  have  been  improperly  granted  ;  that  in  no  case 
shall  they  themselves  grant  certificates  of  exemption  or  detail ; 
that  in  all  doubtful  cases,  or  cases  of  appeal  from  their  decision, 
they  shall  refer  to  the  regular  enrolling  officers,  or  the  command- 
ants, and  that  they  shall  furnish  to  the  local  enrolling  officers,  or 
the  Commandants  of  Conscripts  for  the  State,  descriptive  lists  of 
all  persons  within  conscript  ages,  recruited  or  gathered  by  them. 

II,  The  Commandants  of  Conscripts,  in  making  their  reports 
to  the  Bureau  of  Conscription,  will  return  separately  the  con- 
scripts gathered  and  reported  to  them  under  the  system  institu- 
ted by  the  Circular  above  referred  to. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  OPiDERS,^  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen Vs  Office, 

No.  17.  ]  Richmond,  February  13,  18G3. 

I.  The  following  additional  appointments  under  the  act  of  Oc- 
tober the  9th,  1862.  providing  for  the  establishment  of  military 
courts,  are  announced  for  the  information  of  all  concerned  : 

Lieutenant  General  J.  C.  Pemberton's  Corps. 

George  B.  Wilkinson,  Presiding  Judge,  Mississippi. 

John  J.  Good,  Texas. 

Henry  W.  Allen,  Louisiana. 

John  P.  McMillan,  Judge  Advocate,  Missouri. 

Lieutenant  General   W.  J.  Hardee's  Corps. 

John  C.  Moore,  Presiding  Judge,  Alabama. 

Samuel  J.  Gholson,  Mississippi. 

Taylor  Beatty,  Louisiana. 

Benton  Randolph,  Judge  Advocate,  Texas. 


1<^ 

II.  The  above  named  members  will  report  without  delay  to  the 
commanding  officer  of  the  respective  army  corps  to  which  they 
belong;,  to  whom  their  letters  of  appointment  will  be  forwarded, 
except  where  they  may  be  called  for  at  this  office  at  an  early  day, 

III.  In  all  cases  where  the  sentence  of  a  court  martial  directs 
a  forfeiture  of  pay,  the  just  dues  of  the  laundress  are  to  be  un- 
derstood as  always  excepted  from  such  forfeiture.  This  excep- 
tion will  embrace  sums  which  have  accrued  as  well  as  those 
which  became  due  during  the  term  of  the  sentence. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector.  General, 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  ")         Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l^s  Office. 
No.  18.  J  Richmond,  February  16, 1803. 

I.  With  the  exceptions  herein  after  named,  all  outstanding  au- 
thorities issued  from  the  War  Department  to  recruit  persons  of 
conscript  age  into  regiments,  battalions  or  companies  not  in  ser- 
vice on  the  IGth  day  of  April  1862,  will  be  held  as  terminated 
from  and  after  the  10th  day  of  March  next. 

Any  new  organization  that  shall  meantime  have  been  comple- 
ted up  to  the  legal  standard  of  a  regiment,  battalion  or  company, 
as  may  have  been  specified  in  the  original  authority  issued,  will 
be  reported  before  the  10th  of  T'.Iarch  to  the  Adjutant  and  In- 
spector General's  office  for  muster  and  reception  into  service.  • 

The  organization  itself  failing  of  completion,  the  material 
within  conscript  ages  (including  ofHcers)  of  such  parts  as  shall 
have  been  enrolled  for  the  special  service,  will  be  reported  to  the 
local  Commandants  of  Conscripts,  respectively,  for  enrollment 
and  conscription,  lliese  commandants  will,  however,  cause  to 
be  allowed  to  the  persons  thus  transferred,  previous  to  enrollment, 
the  privilege  of  volunteering  in  companies  that  were  in  service 
on  the  16th  of  April  1862. 

II.  From  the  operations  of  this  Order  are  excepted  new  com- 
panies or  corps  in  process  of  organization  under  authority-issuing 
from  the  War  Dopartmcnt,  of  a  date  later  than  the  10th  of  De- 
cember 1862,  atid  all  such  as  may  have  been  authorized  to  be  re- 
cruited from  material  found  within  districts  possessed  by  the 
enemy,  or  in  which  tlie  conscript  law  has  been  suspended  by  the 
President,  or  in  which  the  regular  execution  of  the  conscript  law 
is,  from  the  vicinity  of  the  enemy,  unattainable. 


IT 

III.  All  olHcers  and  persons  acting  under  authority,  now  and 
hereafter,  to  recruit  new  organizations,  will  report  to  the  Com- 
mandants of  Conscripts  in  their  respective  States,  the  names  of 
those  persons  who  are  employed  by  them  in  enlisting  recruits. 
In  the  absence  of  such  official  evidence,  the  enrolling  officers 
vs'ill  not  recognize  the  authority  claimed. 
By  order, 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General, 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  ]        Adj't  ano  Insp^r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  19.  J  Richmond,  Felruary  17,  1863. 

With  a  view  to  determine  the  military  state  of  certain  persons 
\n  the  army,  who  have  left  their  regular  commands  and  joined 
others,  under  the  impression  that  they  had  a  right  to  do  so,  but 
are  claimed  as  deserters  under  existing  laws,  the  following  Orders 
arc  published  : 

I.  Persons  who  juined  new  companies  at  the  expiration  of 
their  first  term  of  service,  under  the  act  authorizing  re-enlist- 
ments for  the  war,  will  be  continued  in  their  present  corapaniesi 
provided  the  facts  do  not  show  an  intention  to  desert  their  former 
commands  ;  also  all  paroled  prisoners  whose  term  of  service  had 
expired,  and  who  enlisted  in  new  companies  under  the  provisions 
of  General  Orders,  No.  44,  Adjutant  and  Inspector  General's  of- 
fice, Richmond,  17th  June  18G2,  will  be  continued  in  their  pres- 
ent companies. 

II.  All  persons  who  have  really  deserted  and  have  joined  other 
companies,  will  be  returned  to  their  original  commands;  and  the 
benefit  of  this  Order  is  to  be  strictly  limited  to  CEises  arising  from 
a  misconception  of  rights  and  duties  under  the  re-enlistment  and 
conscript  laws. 

III.  The  privilege  heretofore  exercised  by  troops  on  the  battle 
field,  of  exchanging  their  small  arms  and  field  pieces  for  those 
cnptured  from  the  enem}'-,  is  hereafter  forbidden,  and  the  prohi- 
bition will  be  strictly  enforced  by  commanders.  Disasters  may 
easily  result  from  a  disregard  of  this  necessary  order.  All  such 
exchanges  must  be  made  by  proper  authority,  and  with  a  due  re- 
gard'to  the  efhciency  of  the  troops.  Captured  arms  and  artillery 
will  be  turned  over  to  the  chief  ordnance  officer,  and  be  assigned, 
whenever  practicable,  to  the  troops  to  whom  the  General  shall, 
on  testimony,  award  their  copturo. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Ad  infant  and  Inspector  General, 


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GENERAL  ORDERS,]         Adj't  and  Insp'Pw  Gzn'l's  Office, 
No.  20.  J  Richmond,  February  19,  1863. 

I.  "  General  or  other  officers  commanding  army  corps  or  de- 
partments will  cause  full  returns  of  artillery,  ammunition  and 
other  ordnance  stores  at  the  various  forts  and  batteries  within 
their  commands,  to  be  prepared  without  delay. 

*'  The  Chief  of  Ordnance  of  each  army  corps  or  department 
will  he  held  responsible  that  these  returns  are  forwarded  to  the 
Chief  of  the  Bureau  of  Ordnance  at  Richmond  within  twenty 
days  after  the  receipt  of  this  Order,  and  will  thereafter  see  that 
the  returns  required  ]^j  paragraph  1348,  Army  Regulatioas,  ara 
regularly  forwarded. 

II.  "  All  ordnance  and  ordnance  stores,  including  cavalry 
equipments  captured  from  the  enemy  by  Partisan  Rangers,  shall 
be  assessed  by  competent  officers,  under  orders  of  the  command- 
ing General,  entered  upon  the  roils,  and  paid  for  by  any  ordnance 
officer,  upon  receipt  for  the  money  from  the  men  entitled  to  tho 
property,  and  a  property  certificate  signed  by  the  officer  com- 
manding the  company,  squadron,  battalion  or  regiment  of  Ran- 
gers, as  the  case  may  be."  The  rolls  must  state  distinctly  the 
company,  battalion  or  regiment  to  which  the  arms  are  assigned, 
in  order  that  the  commanding  officer  of  the  same  may  be  charged 
with  the  property  on  the  books  of  the  treasury. 

III.  Paragraphs  117,  118  and  119,  Army  Regulations  (being 
ijontrary  to  law),  are  hereby  revoked ;  and  no  enlisted  man  ia 
the  service  of  the  Confederate  States  will  be  employed  as  a  ser- 
vant by  any  officer  of  the  army. 

IV.  When  a  non-commissioned  officer,  musician  or  private  en- 
titled to  a  furlough  under  the  acts  of  Congress,  approved  Decem- 
ber 11,  18C1,  and  April  16,  1862,  shall  elect  to  receive  the  com- 
mutation value  in  money  in  lieu  of  transportation  to  his  homo 
and  back,  the  quartermaster  of  his  regiment  will  promptly  pay 
his  account  therefor,  upon  his  certificate,  approved  by  his  compa- 
ny and  regimental  commanders,  that  commutation  is  justly  due 
him  in  lieu  of  a  furlough. 

V.  In  making  such  payments,  quartermasters  will  estimate  the 
amount  due  in  each  case  at  2]  cents  per  mile  for  the  distance  the 
soldier  would,  if  upon  furlough,  be  compelled  to  travel  to  and 
from  his  home. 

YI.  Company  commanders  will  be  required  to  state  upon  Iheiy 


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muster  and  pay  rolls,  payments  made  under  these  orders,  oppO' 
site  the  name  of  the  soldier  so  paid. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector.  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  )         Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Offices 

No.  21.  )  Richmond,  February  20,  1863. 

I.  When  the  exigency  of  the  service  requires  it,  ordnance 
stores  reported  unserviceable  by  the  officer  who  is  responsible  for 
them,  shall  be  inspected  by  the  Rrigndc  Inspector,  under  the  di- 
rection of  the  Inspector  General  of  the  Army;  or  in  case  of  the 
absence  of  the  Brigade  Inspector,  then  by  any  other  officer  desig- 
nated by  the  Inspector  General,  except  the  officer  accountable  for 
the  property  in  question. 

The  inspecting  officer  shall  make  a  report  in  accordance  with 
paragraphs  925  and  92G,  Army  Regulations  ;  and  whatever  stores 
lie  considers  worn  out  or  unserviceable,  he  shall  order,  under  tho 
direction  of  the  Inspector  General,  to  be  dropped. 

II.  When  requisitions  for  ordnance  stores  are  made  to  supply 
deficiencies,  a  copy  of  the  report  of  the  Inspector  shall  be  ap- 
pended, to  show  the  necessity  of  the  issue. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,!         Adjt  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 
No.  22.  j  Richmond,  February  23, 1863. 

n  The  following  additional  instructions  are  published  for  tho 
guidance  of  the  medical  officers  and  surgeons  comprising  the 
Boards  of  Examination  for  conscripts  : 

I.  In  their  examination  of  conscripts,  they  must  exercise  a 
sound  and  firm  discretion,  and  not  yield  their  judgment  in  favor 
of  every  complaint  of  trivial  disability,  by  attaching  too  much 
importance  to  which,  they  indirectly  favor  evasions  of  the  re- 
quired military  service. 

II.  As  a  general  rule,  it  may  be  received  that  where  a  con- 
script is  equal  to  all  the  active  duties  of  the  various  occupations 
of  civil  life,  he  is  nble  to  discharge  the  duties  of  a  soldier 


.20 

III.  Temporary  exemption  is  bo  liable  to  abuse,  and  fco  ud  rfe- 
Bortod  to  as  a  means  of  evasion,  that  the  examining;  surgeon  must 
fix  the  period  for  which  it  is  granted  (which,  with  the  reasons 
iherefur,  will  be  stated  in  the  monthly  report);  at  the  expiration 
of  which  period,  the  conscript  mast  present  himself  for  examina- 
tion, or  be  considered  absent  without  leave. 

IV.  The  following  aro  some  of  the  grounds  not  deemed  suffi- 
cient and  satisfactory  for  exemption : 

1.  General  Debility. — The  grades  of  this  condition  are  numer? 
ous,  and  on  receiving  them  all  as  grounds  for  exemption,  the  ex- 
amining surgeon  cannot  be  considered  as  discharging  his  duty  to 
tlie  service.  In  arriving  ot  a  correct  judgment  upon  this  point, 
he  will  be  aided  by  the  consideration,  that  observation  has  by  no 
means  established  that  a  so  called  high  standard  of  health  is 
best  adapted  to  encounter  the  exposures  of  military  life,  such 
physical  condition  being  especially  liable  to  disease ;  while 
health  of  a  lower  grade,  without  any  co-existing  positive  disease, 
is  frequently  strengthened  and  improved  by  the  esposures  inci- 
dent to  the  life  0/  a  soldier. 

2.  In  case  of  sligJd  deformity,  Tiatural,  or  tljo  result  of  acci^ 
dent  and  irregular  union  of  fractures,  unless  materral  impair^ 
ment  of  power  and  motion  results  from  such  deformity,  the  con- 
scripts must  be  held  liable  for  military  service. . 

3.  Deafness. — This  is  not  a  valid  reason  for  exemption,  unless 
BO  excessive  (which  must  be  stated  in  the  monthly  report,)  as  to 
incapacitate  a  man  for  the  duties  of  a  sentinel.  The  fact  of  its 
existence  must  also  be  established  by  the  affidavit  of  a  respectable 
physician,  who  has  known  the  conscript  to  be  the  subject  of  the 
infirmity. 

4.  Inipsdiment  of  Speech — Unless  of  a  very  aggravated  charac- 
ter, is  not  a  valid  reason  for  exemption. 

5.  Heart  Disease  [orfjanic). — Organic  disease  of  the  heart 
being  comparatively  infrequent,  the  piiysical  and  rational  signs 
should  be  scrutinized  with  great  care,  and  the  subject  of  exami- 
nation should  not  be  excused  unless  the  case  is  satisfactorily  es- 
tablished. 

6.  Furidional  Disturbance  of  Hearfs  Action, — -This  is  very 
common — not  a  valid  ground  for  exemption,  and  will  generally 
be  relieved  by  change  to  the  life  of  the  camp. 

7.  Rlteumaihm. — The  kind  should  be  designated,  whether 
acute  or  chronic,  articular  or  muscubir.  It  is  a  complaint  liable 
to  be  used  as  a  means  of  evasion.  Where  it  is  simply  muscular, 
without  swelling  or  contraction  of  the  joint?,  and  the  general 
health  of  the  conscript  is  otherwise  sound,  he  fahould  be  held  lia- 
ble to  military  duty. 

8.  Fnilep.<iy. — This  disease  being  frequently  simulated,  so  ^s 


to  imposG  upon  a  carelesa  observer,  nothing  less  tlian  the  obser- 
vation of  an  actual  paroxysm,  or  the  affidavit  of  a  responsiblo 
physician  acquainted  vrith  the  conscript,  should  be  deemed  satis- 
factory by  the  examining  surgeon. 

9.  Varicocele. — Not  a  ground  for  exemption,  unless  excessive; 
which  must  be  stated  in  the  monthly  report. 

10.  Myopia. — Not  a  ground  for  exemption.  Many  myopic 
subjects  distinguish  distant  o  jects  with  accuracy  sufficient  lor  all 
practical  purpose^i. 

11.  Hemorrhoids, — As  many  invalids  in  civil  life,  subjects  of 
this  disorder,  are  engaged  in  active  occupation?!,  they  f<hould  not, un- 
less excessive,  (which  must  be  stated  in  the  monthly  reports,)  be 
considered  satisfactory  grounds  for  exemption. 

12.  Opacily  of  one  Cornea^  or  the  Loss  of  one  Eye. — Not  valid 
grounds  for  exemption. 

13.  Ihe  Loss  of  one  or  two  Fingers. — Not  sufficient  cause  for 
exemption. 

14.  Single  Reducihh  Hernia. — Not  a  valid  cause  for  exemption. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Lispecior  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,)         Ad.t't  and  Tnsp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  23.  ]  EicJimond,  February  25,  1863. 

I.  The  senior  surgeons  of  commands  entitled  to  medical  direc" 
tors  will  be  detailed  as  medical  directors  for  sucli  commands' 
AVhenever,  however,  the  interest  of  the  service  shall  require  a 
departure  from  this  rule,  medical  directors  for  commands  will  be 
recommended  by  the  Surgeon  General,  and  announced  in  Orders 
from  this  office.  '  • 

II.  Par.  VI,  Special  Orders,  No.  79,  and  par.  II,  Special  Ur- 
dern.  No.  80,  of  last  series  from  this  office,  directing  medical  pur- 
veyors to  obey  all  instructions  relative  to  the  transfer  of  medical 
supplies  and  reports  of  supplies  on  hand,  emanating  from  Sur- 
geon E.  W.  Johns,  Medical  Purveyor,  are  hereby  revoked  ;  and 
hereafter  all  reports  will  be  made  direct  to  the  Surgeon  General, 
and  all  instructions  to  medical  purveyors  will  emanate  from  his 
office. 

Surgeon  Johns  will  send  to  the  Surgeon  General's  office,  with- 
out dehiy,  all  records,  b"oks   and   papers  connected  with  the  du- 
ties assigned  him  under  the  above  named  Orders. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Lispecior  General. 


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GENERAL  ORDEPtS,  "j  *  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  24.  ]  Richmond,  March  5,  1863. 

I.  Paragraph  IV  of  General  Orders,  No.  47,  of  1862,  was  de- 
signed to  apply  solely  to  the  cases  of  officers  whose  commands 
had  re-ofganized  for  the  war,  agreeably  to  the  acts  of  Congress, 
No.  306,  of  December  11,  1861,  and  No.  397,  or  February  15, 
1862,  where  the  officers  of  such  re-organized  commands  had  been 
re-elected  to  the  same  grade  of  rank  they  held  in  those  com- 
mands prior  to  their  re-organization,  and  before  the  passage  of 
the  act  of  April  16,  1862,  commonly  known  as  the  "conscription 
act." 

In  all  re-organizations  of  commands  under  this  last  named 
act  (April  16,  1862),  the  officers  will  take  rank  from  the  date  of 
the  act,  and  their  relative  rank  with  each  other  in  the  same  grade 
will  be  regulated  by  the  date  of  their  former  commissions  in  the 
serFice. 

II,  Officers  of  the  army  who  are  dropped  from  the  rolls,  cash- 
iered by  courts  martial,  or  whose  resignations  are  accepted,  and 
who  may  thus  became  liable  to  military  duty  under  the  conscrip- 
tion acts^  will,  when  present  with  their  commands,- be  at  once 
enrolled  by  their  respective  brigade  commanders.  When  not  so 
present,  their  names  will  be  furnished  by  their  commanding 
officers  to  the  proper  enrolling  officers  of  the  district  to-which 
they  belong,  or  in  which  they  reside:  provided,  that  any  officer 
so  liable  to  enrollment,  may  select  in  his  former  command,  any 
company  from  his  own  State  in  which  to  be  enrolled. 

By  order. 

-     S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  |  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  25,  J  Richmond,  March  G,  1863. 

I.  The  following  Act  of  Congress  and  Ptegulations  to  enforce 
the  same,  are  published  for  the  information  of  all  persons  con- 
cerned ; 

Chap.  LXII. — An  Act.  to  protect  the  Rights  of  Oivners  of  Slaves  taken 
by  or  e'liijdoijcd  in  the  army. 

The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  AmericdTdo  enact,  That 
every  person  connected  with  the  army  or  navy  of  the  Confederate 


States,  arresting  or  coming  into  possession  of  any  slave,  by  capture 
irom  the  enemy,  or  otherwise  than  by  hiwlu I  authority,  shall  imme- 
diately report  the  same  to  the  commanding  officer ^f  the  post  or 
brigade  or  station  to  which  he  may  be  attached.  The  said  com- 
manding officer  shall,  with  as  little  delay  as  practicable,  send  the 
slaves  so  reported  to  the  nearest  depot  described  in  the  next  sec- 
tion, With  a  register  of  the  place  and  date  of  their  arrest:  provided, 
however,  that  the  said  slaves,  or  any  of  them,  may  at  once  be  deliv- 
ered  to  their  respective  owners,  if  claim  is  made  and  established 
on  satisfactory  evidence. 

Sec.  2,  The  Secretary  of  War  shall  establish  depots  for  re-cap- 
tured  slaves,  at  convenient  places,  not  more  than  five  in  number  in 
each  btate  ■  and  all  slaves  captured  in  such  State  shall  be  kept'  in 
such  depots.  Public  notice  shall  be  given  of  the  places  so  se- 
Jected. 

Sec.  3.  Lists  of  the  slaves  in  each  of  such  depots,  showin<^  the 
name  and  color  of  such  slaves,  the  place  and  time  of  their  anest 
and  the  names  of  their  owners,  as  given  by  themselves,  or  other- 
wise ascertained,  shall  be  regularly  advertised  in  each  State,  in 
one  or  more  newspapers  of  general  circulation. 

Sec.  4.  While  such  slaves  are  in  depot,  they  may  be  employed, 
under  proper  guard,  on  public  works,-  but  no  slave  shall  be  re- 
moved from  the  depot  to  which  he  is  first  carried,  for  at  least  one 
month  after  the  first  advertisement  of  h,s  being  there,  nor  then,  un- 
less an  exact  register  is  made  of  the  removal,  and  due  advertise- 
^ment  made  in  the  newspapers  as  aforesaid. 

Sec.  5  Free  access  shall  be  permitted  to  all  persons  desiring  to 
inspect  the  said  slaves  for  the  purpose  of  identifying  them  and  es- 
tablishing ownership  ;  and  upon  due  proof,  they  shall  be  imme- 
diately restored  to  the  persons  claiming  them. 

!  Sec.  6.  It  shall  further  be  the  duty  of  the  Secretary  of  War  to  re- 
iiuire  the  names  of  all  slaves  in  the  employment  of  an  officer  or 
soldier  of  the  Confederate  army  or  navy,  with  ihe  names  and  resi- 
dence of  their  owners,  and  of  the  person  by  whom  hired  out,  and  of 
he  officer  or  soldier  hiring,  to  be  reported  to  his  department,  and  a 
ull  register  thereof  to  be  kept  for  public  inspection. 

Sec.  7.  The  President  shall  prescribe  regulations  for  carrying  this 
lot  into  eliect,  and  provide  for  the  subsistence  of  said  slaves  while 
n  such  depots.     (Approved  Oct.  13,  1862.) 

II.  Depots  for  re-captured  slaves  are  hereby  established  at  the 
oliowmg  plmces,  viz  : 

U  the  Camp  of  Instruction  at  Richmond,  in  the  State  of  Virginia. 
"  Petersburg,  "  «« 

"  "  Dublin  Station,       "  « 

R'-^leigh,  "     N.  Carolina. 

„ '  ,,  '  Columbia,  .  "     S.  Carolina, 

Macon,  «     Georgia. 


Decatur, 


21: 


It  the  Camp  of  Instruction  at  Notasulga,  iu  the  State  of  Alabama. 

Talladega, 


Tallahassee, 

<i 

Florida. 

Brookhaven, 

(t 

Mississippi. 

Enterprize, 

i( 

i< 

Monroe, 

<( 

Louisiana. 

Camp  Moore, 

<( 

(( 

New  Iberia, 

(( 

<( 

Houston, 

<( 

Texas. 

Knoxvillc, 

<< 

Tennessee. 

McMinnsville, 

<( 

(( 

Little  Ilock, 

(( 

Arkansas. 

III.  The  commandants  of  the  several  camps  of  instruction  will 
provide  necessary  quarters  for  all  negroes  sent  to  the  depots; 
will  detail  sufficient  guards  for  their  safe  keeping ;.  provide  fur 
their  custody,  employmcut  and  subsistence ;  require  full  and  ac- 
curate registers  to  be  kept,  and  advertisements,  as  prescribed  by 
the  act  of  Congress,  to  be  regularly  made,  and  afford  all  facili- 
ties to  claimants  to  establish  their  ownership,  and  on  due  proof, 
surrender  the  slaves  to  their  owners. 

IV.  Commanding  generals  will  require  all  persons  connected 
with  the  army  to  make  immediate  report  of  all  slaves  arrested  or 
coming  into  their  possession  ;  and  if  claim  is  not  promptly  made 
and  established  by  the  owner,  will  send  such  slaves,  with  a  regis- 
ter of  the  place  and  date  of  their  arrest,  with  as  little  delay  as 
practicable,  to  the  nearest  depot  in  the  State  wherein  the  capture 
is  made.  They  will  also  require  all  officers  and  soldiers  now  em- 
ploying slaves,  forthwith  to  report  the  same,  and  those  hercaftet 
employing  them,  within  ten  days  thereafter,  with  the  names  and 
residence  of  their  owners,  and  of  the  person  by  whom  they  were 
hired  out,  and  of  the  officer  or  soldier  hiring,  and  return  such  re- 
ports as  soon  as  received,  to  this  otHce;  and  will,  in  all  other  re- 
spects, enforce  from  the  officers  and  men  under  their  command  a 
strict  and  prompt  observance  of  the  requirements  of  the  above 
recited  act  of  Congress. 


By  order. 


S.  COOPER, 

Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  "j  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  2G.  )  Richmond,  March  7,  1863. 


The  following  order  of  General  Robert  E.  Lee  is  adopted  by 
the  War  Department,  and  is  re-published  for  the  information  and 
government  of  all  conoerned : 


2o 


*To  avoid  the  danger,  if  not  the  certainty,  of  frequent  col- 
lisions, and  the  consequent  de.struction  of  life  and  property,  as 
well  a8  obstruction  to  all  transportation,  it  is  absolutely  necessary 
that  the  movements  of  railroad  trains  should  be  under  one  undi- 
vided control. 

These  considerations  make  it  imperative  that  all  trains  should 
^e  regulated  in  their  movements  and  speed,  only  by  their  con- 
ductors and  engineers,  in  accordance  with  the  regulations  and 
time  tables  of  the  company. 

_  All  the  operations  of  a  road  should  be  controlled  by  its  super- 
intendent, or  other  authorized  officer;  aod  all  orders  for  trans- 
portation of  every  kind,  and  the  movement  of  every  train  will 
be  directed  through  him,  when  the  exicrencies  of  the  service  de- 
mand a  variation  from  the  regular  "fechedule. 

Disregard  of  this  rule  will  inevitably  be  attended  with  disas- 
trous consequences." 


By  order. 


S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS, )  Ad/t  and  Insp'k  Gen^l's  Office, 

^^'  27.  j  Richmond,  ]lfaf\:7i  II,  1863. 

^  I.  By  direction  of  the  Secretary  of  War,  the  proceedings,  find- 
ings and  sentence  of  the  General  Cou  t  Martial,  held  at  Knox- 
yiUe,  Tennessee  in  the  case  of  Captain  11.  B.  Latrobe,  "  La- 
trobe  s  Battery,"  approved  by  General  Ileth,  and  forwarded  to 
the  War  Department  tor  confirmation,  under  the  89th  Article  of 
War,  are  now,  upon  the  report  of  the  facts  by  General  Ileth  and 
his  action  thereon,  duly  confirmed,  and  Captain  11.  B.  Latrobe 
ceases  to  be  an  ofiicer  of  the  army  of  the  Confederate  States. 

II.  So  much  of  the  sentence  of  General  Court  Martial  awarded 
against  private  James  T.  Wilder,  Co.  E,  4th  Georgia  Volunteers 
as  directs  his  head  to  be  shaved,  and  he  drummed  out  of  the  ser' 
vice  ,s,  by  direction  of  the  President,  remitted-and  private 
Wilder  will,  at  the  expiration  of  the  term  of  his  confinement  as 
required  by  the  sentence  of  the  Court,  be  returned  to  duty  with 
his  company.  "^ 

By  order. 

"  S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General, 


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GENERAL  ORDERS,  ]  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office? 

No.  28.  j  Richmond,  March  12, 1863. 

I.  No  regiment,  battalion,  squadron  or  company  will  be  dis- 
banded from  the  army  prior  to  expiration  of  service,  without  ex- 
press authority  obtained  from  the  War  Department. 

IT.  Brip;adter  Generals  will  not  be  detached  from  their  bri- 
gades, nor  Colonels  from  their  regiments,  except  on  ordinary 
temporary  duty,  without  the  epeciai  authority  of  the  War  De- 
partment. 

III.  The  appointment  of  officers  of  the  army  being  vested  by 
the  constitute  n  in  the  President,  by  and  with  the  advice  and  con- 
sent of  the  Senate,  commanding;  and  other  oflfleera  are  hereby 
©lutionetl  against  assumption  of  this  authority.  All  payments 
made  to  persons  appointed  as  officers  by  military  commanders, 
will  be  charged  against  the  disbursing  officers  making  such  pay- 
ments. 

IV.  The  impositions  attempted  to  be  practiced  on  officers  of 
the  Quartermaster's  Department,  charged  with  paying  troops, 
call  for  the  following  regulations  in  respect  to  the  payment  of 
officers  absent  from  their  proper  commands,  viz:  Regimental 
Quartermasters  will  furnish  to  officers  of  their  regiments  about 
to  leave  their  commands  on  detached  duty,  certificates  of  last  pay- 
ment made  by  them  to  such  officers  ;  which  certificates  will  be 
deposited  with  the  pay  officer  making  the  next  payment,  who 
will,  on  such  further  payment,  give  the  officer  a  like  certificate. 
Payments  to  officers  absent  from  their  appropriate  commands, 
except  those  placed  on  detached  duty  by  Konpetent  authority, 
and  sick  and  wounded  officers  absent  by  like  authority,  are  ei- 
pressly  prohibited.  * 

Y.  General  hospitals  will  be  under  the  supervision  and  con- 
trol of  medical  directors  specially  selected  for  the  purpose,  and 
announced  as  such  in  orders  from  this  office.  Medical  directors 
of  armies,  army  corps  and  departments  will  not  interfere  with 
this  arrangement  in  respect  to  the  general  hospitals. 

VI.  Doubts  having  arisen  in  respect  to  the  mode  of  addressing 
communications,  and  in  passing  them  through  the  channel  pro- 
Tided  in  the  34th  article  of  General  Regulations,  it  is  hereby  di- 
rected that  the  party  making  the  communication  will  address 

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himself  to  the  st'afiT  officer  of  the  General  or  other  commanding 
officer  who  may  have  the  right  finally  to  decide  on  the  question 
or  appli  tation  presented  ;  and  if  tlie  subject  matter  of  the  com- 
jmuniu.ition  be  such  as  to  require  the  action  of  the  War  Depart- 
ment, it  will  be  addressed  tu  the  Aijurant  and  Inspector  General 
through  the  usual  channel.  All  communications  in  the  ascend- 
ing line  will  be  passed  through  the  several  intermediate  com- 
manders, until  they  reach  the  officer  having  the  final  control. 
For  example:  Communications  from  the  members  of  a  company 
will  pass  through  the  commander  of  the  company  ;  thence,  to  the 
commander  of  the  battalion  or  regiment;  thence,  to  the  com- 
mander of  the  brigade;  thence,  to  the  division  commander;  next, 
to  the  commander  of  the  army  corps;  and  finally,  to  the  General 
commanding  in  chief,  for  their  several  remarks ;  and,  if  further 
reference  be  required,  to  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 

YII.  All  recommendations  from  oflBcers  of  the  army,  for  mili- 
tary appointments  to  be  conferred,  will,  besides  giving  the  char' 
acter  and  qualifications  of  the  person  recommended,  name  the 
State  in  which  he  was  born,  and  of  which  he  claims  to  be  a  citl' 
zen.  * 

VIII.  Paragraph  II,  Getseral  OrderR,  No.  97,  December  1, 
1832,  may  be  so  modified  as  to  read,  "Officers  and  agents  of  the 
Quartermaster's  Department  are  hereby  ordered  not  to  interfere 
with  leather  purchased  or  contracted  for  by  officers  or  agents  of, 
or  contractors  with,  the  Ordnance  Department." 
Bv  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General, 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  |  Adj't  and  Insf'r  Genu's  Office, 

No.  29.  j  Richnond,  March  14,  1863. 

I.  At  a  Court  of  Enquiry,  convened  at  Chattanooga,  Tpnnea" 
see,  February  26th,  1863,  by  virtue  of  General  Orders,  No.  38» 
Adjutant  and  In-pector  General's  Office,  Richmond.  Va.,  issued 
in  pursuance  of  nn  act  approved   April  21,  1862,  was  arraigned 

and  tried  Lieut.  Tuomas  N^\ll,  Co.  B,   5th  Georgia  Volunteers, 
on  the  charge  of  drunkenness. 

II.  The  Court  confirmed  t!ie  plea  of  '*  guilty  "  by  the  accused, 
and  sentenced  him  to  be  suspended  from  command  and  pay  for 
one  month,  and  to  be  publicly  reprimanded. 

*  See  also  General  Orders,  No,  163. 


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III,  The  proceedings  having  been  8ul)mitted  to  the  Secretary 
of  War,  to  be  l.iid  before  the  President,  the  following  decision 
has  been  made  thereoa  : 

"  The  sentence  of  the  Court  approTed  :  bat  in  eoTisideration  of 
the  habitual  sobrietj  of  Lieut.  Nail,  aad  his  previous  goovi  char- 
acter, 80  much  of  the  sentence  as  suspends  him  from  command 
and  pay  is  remitted/' 

Lieut.  Nail  will  therefore  be  restored  to  duty  -with  l)is  compa- 
ny; but  the  department  takes  occasion  to  express  its  decided 
disapprobation  of  his  conduct  on  the  occasion  referred  to  in  the 
proceedings. 

lY.  The  Co»rt  of  Snquiry  in  the  foregoing  case  is  hereby  dis- 
sohed. 


By  ordey. 


S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General, 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  ]  Adj't  an3>  Insp'r  Gen'l*s  Offick, 

No.  30.  j  Richmond,  March  18,  1863. 

I.  Any  employee  of  a  government  establishment,  who  shall 
leave  such  employment,  shall  not  l>e  received  at  any  other  gov- 
ernment establishment,  or  by  any  contractor  under  the  govern- 
ment, unless  he  exhibits  a  proper  discharge  from  the  employment 
which  he  loaves. 

IL  Any  contractor  under  the  gov»rnsnent,  wio  shall  employ 
any  workman  leaving,  without  proper  discharge,  a  government 
establishment,  or  the  employment  of  another  contractor  under 
the  government,  shall  be  notiiied  at  oace  that  the  detailed  men 
and  conscripts  in  his  employment  be  returned  to  their  proper  offi- 
cers, upon  report  of  the  iin;ts  to  the  Chief  of  Ordnance.  * 

III.  The  orders  heretofore  given  are  repeated,  that  conscripts 
or  detailed  men   leaving  tiieir  eniphnmi'iit  without  written  per- 
mission, shall  be  reported  to  the   nearest  enrolling  ofiicer,  to  b© 
tried  and  punished  as  deserters. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  Gaierah 

•  Amended  by  Par.  Ill,  General  Oiders,  No.  3.2. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  ]  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  31.  3  Eichmond,  March  19,  1863. 

In  consequence  of  numerous  applications  made  by  various  per- 
sons to  the  War  Department,  it  is  obvious  that  some  misconcep- 
tion in  regard  to  the  instructions  of  the  Secretary  of  War  in  re- 
lation to  the  impressment  of  supplies,  must  exist  on  the  part  of 
the  people,  or  that  the  agents  of  the  government  have  violated 
their  instructions  :  Now,  therefore,  for  the  purpose  of  removiug 
such  misconception,  aud  to  prevent  any  violation  of  those  in- 
structions, it  is  hereby  ordered  : 

I.  That  no  officer  of  the  government  shall,  under  any  circum- 
etances  whatever,  impress  the  supplies  which  a  party  has  for  his 
dOwn  consumption,  or  that  of  his  family,  employees,  or  slaves. 

II.  That  no  officer  shall  at  any  time,  unless  specially  ordered 
BO  to  do  by  a  General  commanding,  in  a  case  of  exigency,  im- 
press supplies  which  are  on  their  way  to  market  for  sale  on  arri- 
val. 

III.  These  orders  were  included  in  the  instructions  originally 
issued  in  relation  to  impressment  by  the  Secretary  of  War;  and 
the  oflScers  exercising  gnch  authority  are  again  notified,  that 
"  any  one  acting  without  or  beyond''  the  authority  given  in  those 
instructions,  will  be  held  strictly  responsible. 

IV.  When  non-commissioned  officers,  musicians  or  privates 
entitled  to  furloughs  under  the  act  of  December  11  th,  1861,  or 
that  of  April  16th,  1862,  have  died,  or  may  herekfter  die,  before 
the  receipt  thereof,  their  personal  representatives  shall  be  allowed 
the  commutation  value  of  transportation  from  the  point  where 
such  parties  die,  to  their  homes  and  back. 

V.  When  non  commissioned  officers,  musicMansor  privates,  en- 
titled under  either  of  the  prtceding  acts  to  a  furlough,  shall  have 
been,  or  may  hereafter  be  promoted  to  the  rnnk  of  commissioned 
officers,  prior  to  the  receipt  thereof,  they  shall  be  allowed  the 
same  commutation  as  is  provided  in  the  previous  paragraph,  or 
when  they  go  on  leave,  the  transportation  in  kind,  at  their  option. 

VI.  Claims  arising  under  paragraph  I,  will  be  settled  by  the 
Second  Auditor;  those  under  paragraph  II,  by  otticers  of  the 
QuarLermiLSter's  department.  In  the  latter  class,  the  facts  must 
be  attested  hy  the  cortifioate  of  the  commanding  officer  of  the 


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regiment  to  which  the  claimant  belonged  at  the  date  of  his  pro- 
motion.* 

By  order"' 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  OeneraU 

*  Amended  by  Par.  V  ;  Gen,  Orders  No.  33. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  |  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office. 

No.  32.  j  Richmond,  March  21,  1863. 

I.  Paragraph  V,  General  Orders,  No.  66.  Adjutant  and  InspeC". 
tor  General's  OflBce,  September  12th,  1862,  is  so  far  amended  as 
to  read  as  follows  : 

Enrolling  or  recruiting  officers,  in  the  discharge  of  their  duties 
under  the  conscript  or  other  acts,  are  enjoined  not  to  remove  or 
interfere  with  workmen  or  emplojees  at  tlie  nitre,  lead  or  copper 
works,  or  mines  or  furnaces  worked  by  government  officers,  or  by 
contractors  for  the  Ordnance  department,  without  first  apprising 
and  obtaining  the  consent  of  the  superintendent  or  oflBcer  in 
charge,  who  will  be  held  strictly  responsible  for  any  abuse  op 
evasion  of  the  law. 

II.  The  operation  of  paragraph  1253,  Confederate  States  Array 
Regulations,  is  hereby  suspended  during  the  existing  war. 

III.  Paragraph  II,  General  Orders,  No.  30,  current  series,  is 
emended  to  read  as  follows : 

Any  contractor  under  the  government,  who  shall  employ  any 
workman  leaving,  without  proper  discharge,  a  government  estab- 
lishment, or  the  employment  of  another  contractor  under  the 
government,  shall  be  notified  at  once  that  the  detailed  men  and 
conscripts  in  his  employment  be  returned  to  their  proper  oflBcers^ 
upon  report  of  the  facts  to  the  Chief  of  the  Bureau  or  Depart- 
ment for  the  service  of  which  the  details  were  made. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  Qenerah 


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GENERAL  ORDERS,  ]  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l*s  Office, 

No.  33.  j  Richmond,  March  2G,  1863. 

I.  The  corps  of  officers  for  ordnance  duty  will  hereafter  be 
composed  exclusively  as  tollows,  viz  : 

Ist.  Officers  of  the  regular  Confederate  army,  detailed  by  the 
War  Department  for  ordnance  duty. 

2d.  Officers  of  the  provisional  artillery,  appointed  under  the  act 
of  congress  April  2l8t,  1862. 

3d.  Officers  of  the  provisional  artillery  for  ordnance  duty,  ap- 
pointed under  act  of  16th  September  1862  (including  at  present 
those  on  duty  under  General  Orders,  No.  12,  1863). 

4th.  Officers  of  artillery  in  the  provisional  army  and  volunteer 
corps,  appointed  under  act  of  congress  approved  January  22d, 
1862,  and  detailed  on  ordnance  duty  by  the  "War  Department. 

5tb.  Officers  of  the  Nitre  and  Mining  bureau,  appointed  under 
act  of  Congress. 

II.  Officers  heretofore  assigned  to  ordnance  duty,  under  provi- 
sions of  General  Orders,  No.  24  and  No.  46,  of  1862,  although 
not  forming  a  part  of  the  ordnance  corps,  will  continue  to  be 
recognized  in  their  positions  until  relieved  by  the  assignment  of 
officers  of  the  ordnance  corps  regularly  appointed  or  detailed. 
Officers  of  this  class  will  be  replaced  by  the  regularly  appointed 
officers  assigned  for  ordnance  duty,  at  the  discretion  of  any  Gen- 
eral commanding  an  army  or  department,  when  the  interest  of 
the  service  requires  it. 

All  such  changes  will  be  communicated  to  the  Chief  of  Ordi- 
nance at  Richmond. 

III.  All  officers  in  charge  of  arsenals,  armories,  work  shops, 
depots,  or  other  posts,  where  work  is  performed  by  detailed  men, 
who  are  paid  by  the  department  in  which  they  are  employed, 
and  who  relinquish  claim  for  pay  as  soldiers,  shall  make  monthly 
reports  to  the  chiefs  of  their  respective  bureaux,  containing  full 
lists  and  descriptions  of  the  men,  with  a  correct  statement  of  the 
pay  they  receive.  These  reports  will  be  forwarded  to  the  Quar-. 
termaster  General,  for  the  information  and  guidance  of  the  Pay 
department,  to  prevent  the  payment  of  fraudulent  claims. 

IV.  All  Generals  or  other  officers  commanding  military  depart- 
ments or  districts,  will  require  from  provost  marshals  and  com- 
mandants of  prisons,  monthly  reports  of  all  citizer.8  and  other 
persons,  not  connected  with  the  Confederate  army,   held  in  coa= 


finement,  with  specifications  of  date  and  cause  of  arrest,  and  by 
•whom  arrested,  accompanied  with  such  remarks  as  they  may 
deem  proper,  and  forward  the  same  without  delay  to  this  office" 

Y.  Paragraph  VI,  General  Orders,  No.  31,  current  series,  is  so 
far  amended  as  to  read  as  follows  : 

Claims  arising  under  paragraph  IV,  will  be  settled  by  the 
second  auditor  ;  those  under  paragraph  V,  by  officers  of  the  Quar- 
termaster's department.  •  In  the  lattar  class,  the  facts  must  be 
attested  by  the  certificate  of  the  commanding  ofiicer  of  the  regi- 
ment to  which  the  claimant  belonged  at  the  date  of  his  promotion. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER. 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  ]  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

•    No.  34.  J  Richmond,  April  1,  1863. 

I.  The  attention  of  commanding  and  other  officers  is  called  to 
the  act  of  congress  of  April  21,  1862,  as  published  in  General 
Orders,  No.  38,  of  that  year.  A  more  rigid  enforcement  of  the 
requirements  of  that  act  on  the  part  of  commanding  ofticers 
therein  referred  to,  is  deemed  important  to  the  interest  of  the 
service. 

II.  The  geographical  limits  of  the  command  of  Lieutenant 
General  Longstreet,  embracing  the  Defences  of  Richmond,  and 
extending  south,  to  include  the  State  of  North  Carolina — the 
whole  under  the  supervision  and  general  direction  of  General  R. 
E.  Lee — will  be  divided  into  three  Military  Departments,  as  fol- 
lows :  All  north  of  the  James  river,  for  the  defence  of  Richmond, 
will  constitute  the  Department  of  Richmond,  under  Major  Gene- 
ral Elzey — Head  Quarters,  Richmond.  All  that  portion  of  Vir- 
ginia south  of  the  James  river,  and  east  of  the  county  of  Pow- 
hatan, will  constitute  the  Depnitment  of  Southern  A^irginia,  under 
Major  General  French,  Head  Quarters  at  some  central  point  near 
the  Blackwater.  The  State  of  North  Carolina  will  constitute  the 
Department  of  North  Carolina,  under  Major  General  D.  H.  Hill 
— Head  Quarters,  Goldsboro'. 

III.  The  price  of  beef  hides,  transferred  in  accordance  with 
paragraph  111,  General  Orders,  No.  64,  of  1862,  will  be  at  the 
following  rates:  For  green  hides,  five  cents  per  pound,  and  dry 
hides  tea  cents  per  pound,  in  the  Trans-Mississippi  Depaj-tment ; 


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find  for  all  beef  hides,  east  of  the  Mississippi  river,  thirty  cents 
per  pound. 

These  prices  will  be  paid  by  the  Quartermaster  and  Assistant 
Quartermaster  to  the  Commissaries  transferrinji;  them,  and  the 
latter  will  account  for  the  fund  thus  received,  in  their  next  ac- 
counts current. 

IV,  By  General  Orders,  No.  CI,  paragraph  II,  last  series,  from 
this  office,  Quartermasters  are  directed  to  laear  on  their  returns, 
ambuhinces  and  wagons  for  the  transportation  of  regimental  hos- 
pital supplies,  the  teams  and  drivers.  It  is  also  their  duty  to 
keep  them  in  good  condition,  and  ready  for  active  service.  Com- 
manders will  require  the  performance  of  this  duty. 
By  order, 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General, 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  )  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  35.  )  Richmond,  April  4,  1863. 

I.  At  a  General  Court  Martial,  convened  at  Pollard,  Alabama, 
December  9th,  18G2,  by  virtue  of  General  Orders,  No.  93,  Head 
Quarters  District  of  the  Gulf,  were  arraigned  anvl  tried : 

1. — Major  M.  R.  Marks,  2d  Alabama  Cavalry: 

On  the  following  charges :  (Specifications  omitted  in  this  Or" 
der.) 

Charge  1st,  -        -        Violation  of  the  24th  Article  of  War. 

Charge  2d,  -        -        Violation  of  the  99th  Article  of  War. 

Finding  and  Sentence  of  the  Court. 

The  Court  find  the  accused,  Major  M.  R.  Marks,  2d  Regiment 
Cavalry,  guilty  of  the  charges  preferred,  and  sentence  him  to  be 
dismissed  from  the  service  of  the  Confederate  States. 

2. — Colonel  F.  M.  Hunter,  2d  Regiment  Alabama  Cavalry: 

Charge  1st,  -         -  Violation  of    Cth  Article  of  War. 

Charge  2d,  -         -  A^iolation  of  24th  Article  of  War. 

Charge  Zd,  -        -  \iolation  of  83d  Article  of  War. 

Finding  and  Sentence  of  the  Court. 

The  Court  find  the  accuM,  Colonel  F.  M.  Hunter,  2d  Regiment 


u 

Alabama  Cavalry,  guilty  of  the  charges  preferred,  and  sentence 
him  to  be  dismissed  from  the  service  of  the  Confederate  States. 

II.  The  proceedings,  findings  and  sentences  in  the  foregoing 
cases  having  been  submitted  to  the  President,  are  by  him  appro- 
ved. Major  M.  II.  Marks  and  Colonel  F.  M.  Hunter,  2d  Alabama 
Cavalry,  cease  to  be  ofiicers  of  the  Confederate  States  army  from 
this  date. 

By  order.    . 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,*  ]         Adj't  and  Insp'r  G£nVs  Office, 
No.  36.  J  Richmond^  April,  6,  1863. 

The  Superintendent  of  the  Nitre  and  Mining  Bureau  is  author- 
ized to  pay,  from  the  appropriation  for  the  purchase  and  manu- 
facture of  nitre,  the  actual  travelling  expenses  of  officei's  of  the 
nitre  corps  on  duty,  under  orders,  in  lieu  of  any  commutation 
for  the  time,  of  rations  and  forage. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General, 

*  Revoked  by  Gen.  Orders,  No.  102. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  f        Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 
No.  37.  )  Richmond,  April  6,  1863. 

I.  The  following  Acts  of  Congress,  concerning  *Hmpress77ienis'' 
and  the  instructions  of  the  War  Department  respecting  it,  are 
published  for  the  information  and  direction  of  all  concerned  : 

"  Whenever  the  exigencies  of  any  army  in  the  field  are  such 
as  to  make  impressments  of  forage,  articles  of  subsistence  or 
other  property  absolutely  necessary,  then  such  impressments  may 
be  made  by  the  officer  or  officers  whose  duty  it  is  to  furnish  such 
forage,  articles  of  subsistence  or  other  property  of  such  army. 
In  cases  where  the  owner  of  such  property  and  the  impressing 
officer  cannot  agree  upon  the  vzflue  thereof,  it  shall  be  the  duty 
of  such  impressing  officer,  upon  an  affidavit  in  writing  of  the 
owner  of  such  property,  or  his  agent,  that  such  property  was 
grown,  raised  or  produced  by  said  owner,  or  is  held  or  has  been 


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purchased  by  him,  not  fbr  sale  or  speculation,  but  for  his  own 
use  or  consumption,  to  cause  the  same  to  be  ascertained  and  de- 
termined by  the  judgment  of  two  loyal  and  disinterested  citizens 
of  the  city,  county  or  parish  in  which  such  impressments  may 
be  made — one  to  be  selected  by  the  owner ;  one  by  the  impress- 
ing officer  ;  and  in  the  event  of  their  disagreement,  these  two 
shall  choose  an  umpire  of  like  qualifications,  whose  decision  shall 
be  final.  The  persons  thus  selected,  after  taking  an  oath  to  ap- 
praise the  property  impressed  fairly  and  impartially  (which  oath, 
as  well  as  the  affidavit  provided  for  in  this  section,  the  impressing 
officer  is  hereby  authorized  to  administer  and  certify,)  whall  pro- 
ceed to  assess  just  compensation  for  the  property  so  impressed, 
whether  the  absolute  ownership  or  the  temporary  use  thereof 
only  is  required. 

"  Sec  2.  That  the  officer  or  person  impressing  property  as 
aforesaid,  shall,  at  the  time  of  said  taking,  pay  to  the  owner,  his 
agent  or  attorney,  the  compensation  fixed  by  said  appraisers; 
and  shall  all  also  given  to  the  owner,  or  person  controlling  said 
property,  a  certificate,  over  his  official  signature,  specifying  the 
battalion,  regiment,  brigade,  division  or  corps  to  which  he  be- 
longs, that  said  property  is  essential  for  the  use  of  the  army, 
could  not  be  otherwise  procured,  and  was  taken  through  absolute 
necessity  ;  setting  forth  the  time  and  place  when  and  where 
taken,  the  amount  of  compensation  fixed  by  said  appraisers,  and 
the  sum,  if  any,  paid  for  the  same.  Said  certificate  shall  be  evi- 
dence for  the  owner,  as  well  of  the  taking  of  said  property  for 
the  public  use,  as  the  right  of  the  owner  to  the  amount  of  com- 
pensation fixed  as  aforesaid.  And  in  case  said  officer  or  per- 
son taking  said  property  shall  have  failed  to  pay  the  owner  or 
his  agent  said  compensation  as  herein  before  required,  then  said 
owner  shall  be  entitled  to  the  speedy  payment  of  the  same  by  the 
proper  disbursing  officer  ;  which,  when  so  paid,  shall  be  in  full 
satisfaction  of  all  claim  against  the  government  of  the  Confede- 
rate States. 

"  Sec.  3.  Whenever  the  appraisement  provided  for  in  the  first 
section  of  this  act  shall,  for  any  reason,  be  impracticable  at  the 
time  of  said  impressment,  then,  and  in  that  case,  the  value  of 
the  property  impressed  shall  be  assessed  as  soon  as  possible  by 
two  loyal  and  disinterested  citizens  of  the  city,  county  or  par- 
ish, wherein  the  property  was  taken,  chosen  as  follows:  One  by 
the  owner,  and  one  by  the  Commissary  or  Quartermaster  Gene- 
ral, or  his  agent,  who,  in  case  of  disagreement,  shall  choose  a 
third  citizen  of  like  qualifications  as  an  umpire,  to  decide  the 
matters  in  dispute,  who  shall  be  sworn  as  aforesaid,  who  shall 
hear  the  proofs  adduced  by  the  parties  as  to  the  value  of  said 
property,  afrt  asscFs  a  just  compensation  therefor,  according  to 
the  tistimony. 


'*  Sec.  4.  That  whenever  the  Secretaryiof  War  shall  be  of  opin- 
on  that  it  is  necessary  to  take  private  property  fur  public  use,  by 
reason  of  the  impracticability  of  procurinj^  the  same  by  purchase, 
so  as  to  accumulate  necessary  supplies  for  the  army,  or  the  good 
of  the  service,  in  any  locality,  he  may,  by  general  order,  through 
the  proper  subordinate  officers,  authorize  such  property  to  be  ta- 
ken for  the  public  use;  the  compensation  due  the  owner  for  the 
same  to  be  determined  and  the  value  fixed  as  provided  for  in  the 
first  and  second  sections  of  this  act. 

**  Sec.  5.  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  President,  as  early 
as  practicable  after  the  passage  of  this  act,  to  appoint  a  commis- 
eioner  in  each  State  where  property  shall  be  taken  for  the  public 
use,  and  request  the  Governor  of  such  of  the  States  in  which  the 
President  shall  appoint  said  ccmmissioncr,  to  appoint  another 
commissioner,  to  act  in  conjunction  with  the  commissioner  ap- 
pointed by  the  President,  who  shall  receive  the  compensation  of 
eight  dollars  per  day,  and  ten  cents  per  mile  as  mileage,  to  be 
paid  by  the  Confederate  gov.crnraent.  Said  commissioners  shall 
constitute  a  board,  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  fix  upon  the  prices 
to  be  paid  by  the  government  for  all  property  impressed  or  taken 
for  the  public  use  as  aforesaid,  so  as  to  afford  just  compensation 
to  the  owners  thereof.  Said  commissioners  shall  agree  upon  and 
publish  a  schedule  of  prices  every  two  months,  or  oftener  if  they 
shall  deem  it  proper;  and  in  the  event  they  shall  not  be  able  to 
agree  in  any  matter  confided  to  them  in  this  act,  they  shall  have 
power  to  appoint  an  umpire  to  decide  the  matter  in  dispute, 
whose  docision  shall  be  the  decision  of  the  board  ;  and  said  um- 
pire shall  receive  the  same  rate  of  compensation  for  the  time  he 
shall  serve,  allowed  to  said  commissioners  respectively  :  Provided, 
that  said  commissioners  shall  be  residents  of  the  State  for  which 
they  shall  be  appointed;  and  if  the  Governor  of  any  State  shall 
refuse  or  neglect  to  appoint  said  commissioner  within  ten  days 
after  a  request  to  do  so  by  the  President,  then  tlie  President  shall 
appoint  both  commissioners,  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent 
of  the  senate. 

**  Sec.  6.  That  all  property  impressed  or  taken  for  the  pul^lic  use, 
as  aforesaid,  in  the  hands  of  any  person  other  than  the  persons 
who  have  raised,  grown  or  produced  the  same,  or  persons  holding 
the  same  for  their  own  use  or  consumption,  and  who  shall  make 
the  affidavit  as  herein  before  required,  shall  be  paid  for  accurd- 
ing  to  the  schedule  of  prices  fixed  by  the  commissioners  as  afoi'e- 
said.  But  if  the  officer  impressing  or  taking  for  the  public  use 
such  property,  and  the  owner,  shall  differ  as  to  the  quality  of  the 
article  or  property  impressed  or  taken  as  aforesaid,  thereby  mak- 
ing it  fall  within  a  higher  or  lower  price  named  in  the  schedule, 
then  the  owner  or  agent  and  the  officer  impressing  «ar  taking,  as 
aforesaid,  may  select  each  a  loyal  and  disinterested  citizen,  of  the 


at 

qualifications  as  aforesaid,  to  determine  the  quality  of  said  arti- 
cle or  property,  wlio  shall,  in  case  of  disaf!;reement,  appoint  an 
umpire  of  like  qualifications,  and  his  decision,  if  ajiproved  by  the 
officer  impressini;,  shall  be  final ;  but  if  not  approved,  the  im- 
pressing ofticer  shall  send  the  award  to  the  commissioners  of  the 
State  where  the  property  is  impressed,  with  his  reasons  for  dis- 
approving the  same,  and  said  commissioners  may  hear  such 
proofs  as  the  parties  may  respectively  adduce,  and  their  decision 
shall  be  final :  Provided,  that  the  owner  may  receive  the  price 
ofi'ered  by  the  impressing  officer,  without  prejudice  to  his  claim 
to  receive  the  higher  compensation. 

**  Sec.  7.  That  the  property  necessary  for  the  support  of  the 
owner  and  his  family,  and  to  curry  on  his  ordinary  agricultural 
and  mechanical  business,  to  be  ascertained  by  the  appraisers,  to 
be  appointed  as  provided  in  the  first  section  of  this  act,  under 
oath,  shall  not  be  taken  or  impressed  for  the  public  use  ;  and 
when  the  impressing  officer  and  the  owner  cannot  agree  as  to  the 
quantity  of  property  necessary  as  aforesaid^  then  the  decision  of 
the  said  appraisers  shall  be  binding  on  the  officer  and  all  other 
persons. 

"  Sec.  8.  Where  property  has  been  impressed  for  temporary 
use,  and  is  lost  or  destroyed,  without  the  default  of  the  owner, 
the  government  of  the  Confederate  States  shall  pay  a  just  com- 
pensation therefor  ;  to  be  ascertained  by  appraisers  appointed  and 
qualified  as  provided  in  the  first  section  of  this  act.  If  such 
property  when  returned  has,  in  the  opinion  of  the  owner,  been 
injured  whilst  in  the  public  use,  the  amount  of  damage  thereby 
sustained  shall  be  determined  in  the  manner  described  in  the 
third  section  of  this  act,  the  officer  returning  the  property  being 
authorized  to  act  ©n  behalf  of  the  government;  and  upon  such 
enquiry,  the  certificate  of  the  value  of  the  property,  when  origi- 
nally impressed,  shall  be  received  as  prima  facie  evidence  of  the 
value  thereof. 

"Sec.  9.  Where  slaves  are  impressed  by  the  Confederate  gov- 
ernment to  labor  on  fortifications  or  other  public  works,  the  im- 
pressment shall  be  made  by  said  government  according  to  the 
rules  and  regulations  provided  in  the  laws  of  the  State  wherein 
they  are  impressed ;  and  in  the  absence  of  such  law,  in  accord- 
ance with  such  rules  and  regulations  not  inconsistent  with  the 
provisions  of  this  act,  as  the  Secretary  of  War  shall  from  time  to 
time  prescribe :  Provided,  that  no  impressment  of  slaves  shall 
be  made  when  they  can  be  hired  or  procured  by  the  consent  of 
the  owner  or  agent. 

"  Sec.  10.  That  previous  to  the  first  day  of  December  next,  no 
slave  laboring  on  a  farm  or  plantation  exclusively  devoted  to  the 
production  of  grain  and  provisions,  shall  be  taken  for  the  public 


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use,  without  the  consent  of  the  owner,  except  in  case  of  urgent 
necessity. 

"  Sec.  11.  That  any  commissioned  or  non-commissioned  officer 
or  private  who  shall  violate  the  provisions  of  this  act,  shall  be 
tried  before  the  military  court  of  the  corps  to  which  he  is  attach- 
ed, on  complaint  made  by  the  owner  or  other  person  ;  and  on 
conviction,  if  an  officer,  he  shall  be  cashiered  and  put  into  the 
ranks  as  a  private ;  and  if  a  non-commissioned  officer  or  private, 
he  shall  suffer  such  punishment,  not  inconsistent  with  military 
law,  as  the  court  may  direct." 

II. — 1.  By  the  authority  of  the  act  of  Congress  aforesaid,  the 
Secretary  of  War  hereby  recognizes  impressment  as  a  legal  and 
operative  mode  of  securing  necessary  supplies  of  subsistence, 
medical  and  quartermaster's  stores  for  the  armies  of  the  Confed- 
erate States  in  the  field,  and  to  accumulate  them  in  magazines, 
posts  and  depots,  owing  to  the  impracticability  of  procuring  them 
by  contract. 

2.*  Impressments  may  be  made  under  orders  from  Generals 
commanding  armies,  departments,  corps,  divisions,  brigades,  and 
by  commanders  of  detached  parties  and  posts,  when  a  necessity 
arises ;  which  orders  may  be  executed  by  quartermasters,  com- 
missaries or  medical  purveyors  and  their  subordinates,  for  their 
respective  departments. 

The  Quartermaster  General,  Commissary  General  and  Surgeon 
General  may  designate  the  officers  and  persons  who  shall  be  com- 
petent to  make  impressments  to  accumulate  supplies  at  posts  and 
depots. 

3.  No  officer  or  agent  shall  impress  the  necessary  supplies 
which  any  person  may  have  for  the  consumption  of  himself,  his 
family,  employees,  slaves,  or  to  carry  on  his  ordinary  mechanical, 
manufacturing  or  agricultural  employments. 

4.  Before  any  impressment  of  property  shall  take  place,  the 
impressing  officer  or  his  agent  shall  make  an  offer,  addressed  to 
the  owner,  his  bailie  or  other  agent,  to  purchase  the  property, 
describing  the  property  he  wishes  to  purchase,  the  price  to  be 
paid,  and  the  mode  of  payment,  whether  in  money,  or  by  certifi- 
cate, and  stating  that  upon  the  refusal  of  the  price  offered,  that 
compensation  for  the  property  will  be  made  according  to  the  act 
of  Congress  aforesaid,  for  the  regulation  of  impressments  ;  which 
notice  shall  bind  the  said  property  until  the  completion  of  the  ne- 
gotiation for  the  sale  or  appropriation  thereof,  so  that  there  can 
be  no  removal  or  transfer  of  the  same. 

5.  In  the  event  of  the  refusal  of  the  price  offered,  the  impress- 
ing officer  shall  proceed  to  settle  the  compensation  to  be  paid,  no- 

*  See  Par.  I.  General  Orderg,  No.  39, 


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cording  to  the  first  section  of  the  act  aforeeaid,  if  tlie  property 
belongs  to  a  person  who  has  grown,  raised,  or  produced  the  same, 
or  who  holds  or  has  purchased  the  same  for  his  own  use  or  con- 
sumption ;  but  the  said  propert}'' sliall  be  paid  for  according  to 
the  5th  section  of  the  net  aforesaid,  if  the  property  is  held  for 
sale  or  other  purposes  than  those  before  mentioned.* 

6.  That  the  property  shall  remain  in  the  possession  of  the 
owner,  his  bailee  or  agent,  and  at  his  risk,  during  the  pendency 
of  the  proceedings  for  the  ascertainment  of  the  compensation, 
unless  it  shall  be  otherwise  agreed  to,  or  unless  some  urgent  ne- 
cessity shall  require  the  possession  of  the  property  to  be  changed. 
In  case  of  a  change  of  possession,  the  Confederate  States  shall 
be  regarded  as  the  owner,  and  the  property  shall  be  held  for  their 
account  and  risk. 

7.  The  impressing  officer  shall,  at  the  date  of  the  impressment, 
pay  to  the  owner,  his  agent  or  attorney  in  fact,  the  compensation 
agreed  upon,  if  it  be  practicable ;  but  if  he  cannot  do  so,  he  shall 
give  a  certificate,  according  to  the  second  section  of  the  act  afore- 
said; which  shall  be  paid  upon  presentation  to  the  disbursing 
officers,  who  shall  be  designated  for  that  purpose. 

8.  Impressments,  which  shall  be  made  before  the  appointment 
of  the  commissioners  designated  in  the  5th  section  of  the  act 
aforesaid,  shall  notwithstanding  be  legal,  and  in  the  cases  provi- 
ded for  by  that  section,  a  portion  of  the  property  shall  be  retain- 
ed as  samples,  so  that  the  price  may  be  settled  and  compensation 
adjusted  according  to  the  provisions  of  the  same. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  1         Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 
No.  38.  ]  Richmond,  April  7,  1863. 

I,  The  following  provision  of  an  act  of  the  legislature  of  Vir- 
ginia, passed  March  26th,  1863,  is,  by  the  direction  of  the  Presi- 
dent, published  for  the  information  and  guidance  of  such  oflBcers 
and  soldiers  of  the  Confederate  States  army  as  it  concerns : 

•'  7.  Be  it  further  enacted,  that  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  gov- 
ernor of  the  commonwealth  to  issue  his  proclamation  giving 
notice  to  the  qualified  voters  of  the  state  in  the  military  service 
of  the  state  or  of  the  Confederate  States,  or  who  may  be  absent 
from  the  county  or  corporation  of  their  residence,  because  of  the 

*  Amended  by  General  Orders,  No,  161. 


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presence  of  the  public  enemy,  of  their  right  to  vote  for  members 
of  the  general  assembly,  by  virtue  of  the  provisions  of  the  first, 
second  and  fourth  sectiuns  of  the  ordinance  passed  by  the  con- 
vention of  Virginia  (No.  99)  on  the  sixth  day  of  December, 
1861.  And  also  to  all  whom  it  may  concern,  of  the  passage  of 
this  act,  and  of  the  rights  and  duties  set  forth  in  its  provisions  : 
and  it  shall  further  be  his  duty  to  request  the  President  of  the 
Confederate  States  to  issue  an  order  to  all  commandants  of  camps, 
posts  and  detachments  in  command  of  Virginia  troop.s,  requiring 
them  to  give  their  aid  in  the  due  execution  of  the  ordinance 
aforesaid  and  of  this  act.'' 

II.  Cadets,  on  attaining  their  majority,  will  be  examined,  and 
if  found  competent,  will  be  promoted  to  the  grade  of  second  lieu- 
tenant in  the  arm  of  the  service  to  which  they  are  attached. 
Commanders  of  armies  in  the  field  are  charged  with  the  assem- 
bling of  the  requisite  boards. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  1  Adj't  and  Insp't  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  39.  J  Richmond,  April  10,  1863. 

I.  That  in  all  cases  of  impressment  heretofore  made  under  the 
authority  of  any  of  the  persons  mentioned  in  paragraph  2d  of 
section  11,  of  General  Orders,  No.  37,  in  which  the  property 
impressed  is  either  in  the  possessi.tn  of  the  owner  or  of  the 
impressing  officer  or  his  subordinates,  and  the  compensation 
therefor  shall  not  have  been  adjusted,  and  it  shall  be  necessary 
to  determine  the  compensation  to  be  made,  it  shall  be  laM'ful  to 
employ  the  rules  and  agencies  provided  in  the  act  of  congress 
concerning  impressment,  aTid  the  General  Orders  aforesaid  for 
that  purpose,  in  the  same  manner  and  under  the  same  circum- 
stances as  if  the  impressment  had  been  made  since  the  date  of 
the  same. 

II.  "  Conscripts  examined  prior  to  the  publication  of  General 
Orders,  No.  22,  Adjutant  and  Inspector  Generars  Office,  Febru- 
ary 23d,  1863,  and  excused  from  military  service,  for  reasons 
announced  in  that  order  as  insufficient  cause  for  exemption,  will 
be  re-examined  by  the  examining  board  of  surgeons  appointed 
for  the  different  congressional  districts,  and  if  not  deemed  unfit 
ibr  military  duty  under  the  instructions  issued,  will  be  received 
into  service." 


*'  Temporary  exemption*'  will  not  be  given  for  a  '^  period  be- 
yond thirty  days.'" 


By  order. 


S.  COOPEll, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  ]         Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'i/s  Office, 

No.  40.  I  Eichmond,  April  11,  1863. 

I.  At  a  Court  of  Inquiry  convened  January  20th,  1863,  afc 
Quincy,  Florida,  by  virtue  of  General  Orders  of  January  8th, 
1863,  Department  of  Florida,  and  in  pursuance  of  the  act  of  2l8b 
April,  1862,  "to  punish  drunkenness  in  the  army,''  was  ar- 
raigned and  tried : 

Captain  Haley  T.  Blocker,  Blocker's  Cavalry,  P.  A.  C.  S. : 
On  the  charge  of  Drunkenness. 

(The  Specifications  are  omitted  in  this  Order  on  account  of 
their  prolixity.) 

Finding  and  Sentence. 

The  Court  find  the  accused  "guilty"  of  the  charge,  and  sen- 
tence him  to  be  suspended  from  his  command  for  tvirenty  days. 

II.  The  proceedings  in  the  foregoing  case  having  been  sub- 
mitted to  the  Secretary  of  "War,  to  be  laid  before  the  President, 
have  been  retured  to  this  office,  with  the  following  order  thereon 
endorsed  : 

*'  The  finding  of  the  Court  of  Inquiry,  convened  at  Quincy, 
Florida,  in  the  case  cf  Captain  Haley  T.  Bloclcer,  of  the  cavalry, 
charged  with  drunkenness,  under  the  act  of  congress  of  April 
2lst,  1862,  has  been  examined,  and  upon  consideration  thereof, 
the  same  is  approved.  The  sentence  of  the  Court  is  regarded  as 
very  lenient,  and  the  department  cannot  but  express  the  hope 
that  it  will  be  received  by  the  officer  as  a  solemn  admonition  as 
well  as  a  rebuke. 

"  The  department,  in  reviewing  the  proceedings,  is  compelled 
to  express  its  disapprobation  of  the  harsh  language  employed 
against  the  prosecutor,  in  the  couise  of  the  same,  by  the  defend- 
ant's counsel.  The  prosecutor  performed  a  duty,  imposed  by  act 
of  congress." 

III.  The  General  commanding  will  carry  into  cfi'oct  the  sen- 


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tence  in  the  case,  and  direct  the  dissolution  of  the  Court  of  In- 
quiry. 


By  order. 


S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General, 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  ]  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  41.  ]  Bichmond,  April  14,  1863, 

I.  At  a  General  Court  Martial,  held  at  Holly  Springs,  Miss., 
October  25th,  1862,  by  virtue  of  General  Orders,  No.  3,  from  the 
Head  Quarters  of  the  Department  of  Mississippi  and  Louisiana, 
of  October  18,  1862,  was  q,rraigned  and  tried  ; 

First  Lieutenat  Mason  G.  Anderson,  Company  G,  Slst  Miss. 
Volunteers,  on  the  following  Charge — (The  Specifications  are 
here  omitted :) 

Charge,        ,  .  Violation  of  the  77th  Article  of  War, 

II.  Finding  and  Sentence  of  the  Court. 

Of  the  1st  Specification,  ,  ,  .  ,  Not  Guilty. 

Of  the  2d  Specification,  .  ,  ♦  ,  Guilty. 

Of  the  3d  Specification,  .  .  .  ,  Guilty, 

Of  the  Charge,      ,  .  ,  ,  ,  Guilty, 

And  the  Court,  after  mature  deliberation,  sentence  the  said 
Mason  G.  Anderson,  First  Lieutenant  Company  G,  31st  Miss, 
Volunteers,  to  be  cashiered. 

III.  The  proceedings  in  the  foregoing  case  having  been  laid 
before  the  Secretary  of  War,  to  be  submitted  to  the  President, 
the  following  order  has  been  made  thereon  ; 

The  proceedingg,  findings  and  sentence  in  the.  case  of  Lieut. 
Mason  G.  Anderson  are  approved  and  confirmed  ;  but  in  con^ 
eideration  of  his  good  character,  as  established  at  his  trial,  and 
the  recommendation  of  a  portion  of  the  officers  of  his  company, 
the  sentence  is  remitted,  and  Lieutenant  Anderson  will  be  re- 
stored to  duty  with  his  company. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjidani  and  Inspector  General, 


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GENERAL  ORDERS,  "j         Adj't  and  Insp'r  Oen'l's  OrriCE, 

No.  42.  J  Richmond,  April  14,  1863. 

I.  At  the  Military  Court  of  the  Department  of  Virginia  and 
North  Carolina,  appointed  under  Act  of  Congress  of  October 
9th,  1862,  was  arraigned  and  tried: 

Major  KiRKWOOD  Otey,  11th  Regiment  Va.  Infantry,  on  the 
following  Charges — (The  Specifications  are  omitted:) 

Charge  \st,  ,  Drunkenness  on  duty. 

Charge  2d,  .  Violation  of  the  77th  Article  of  War, 

11.  Finding  and  Sentence  of  the  Court. 

The  Court  affirm  the  plea  of  the  said  Major  Kirkwood  Otey, 
11th  Va.  Infantry,  to  the  first  Charge,  and  Specification  there- 
under, and  find  him 

Of  the  Specification  of  Ist  Charge,  ,  ,  Guilty, 

Of  the  1st  Charge,             .            ".  ,  ,  Guilty. 

Of  the  1st  Specification  of  2d  Charge,  .  .  Not  Guilty. 

Of  the  2d  Specification  of  2nd  Charge,  ,  .  Not  Guilty. 

Of  the  2d  Charge,              .            .  ,  .  Not  Guilty, 

And  do,  therefore,  sentence  him,  the  said  Major  Kirkwood 
Otey,  llrh  Va.  Infantry,  to  be  cashiered,  and  dismissed  the  ser- 
vice of  the  Confederate  States. 

III.  The  proceedings  in  the  foregoing  case  having  been  laid 
before  tho  Secretary  of  War,  to  be  submitted  to  the  President, 
the  following  order  has  been  ma.le  thereon: 

The  proceedings,  findings  and  sentence  in  the  case  of  Major 
Kirkwood  Otey,  11th  Regiment  Va.  Infantry,  are  approved  ;  but 
in  consideration  of  hins  previous  good  character,  and  the  recom- 
mendation  of  the  Court  and  the  General  commanding,  the  sen- 
tence is  remitted,  and  Major  Otey  will  be  restored  to  duty. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General, 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  ]         Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 
No.  43.  J  Eichmond,  April  15,  1863, 

I.  At  the  Military  Court  of  the  Department  of  Virginia  ^xn\ 


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North  (Jaroliua,  held  at  Petersburg,  Va.  March   13th,  1863,  vras 
arraigned  and  tried  : 

First  Lieut,  and  Adjt.  John  N.  C.  Stockton,  of  the  1st  Kegi- 
ment  of  Virginia  Infantry,  on  the  following  Charges — (The 
Specifications  are  omitted  in  this  order:) 

charge  \si,       .  .        Violation  of  the  45th  Article  of  War* 

Charge  2d,       .  .        Conduct  prejudicial  to  good  order  and 

military  discipline. 

II.  Finding  and  Sentence  of  the  Court. 

The  Court  having  maturely  considered  the  case,  find  the  ac- 
cused, First  Lieut,  and  Adjt.  John  N.  C.  Stockton,  1st  Virginia 
Infantry,  as  follows  : 

Of  the  1st  Specification  of  1st  Charge,  .  .         Guilty. 


Of  the  2d  Specification  of  1st  Charge, 
Of  the  Ist  Charge, 
Of  the  Specification  of  2d  Charge, 
Of  the  2d  Charge, 


Guilty. 
Guilty. 
Guilty. 
Guilty'. 


And  do,  therefore,  sentence  him  to  be  cashiered^  and  dismissed 
the  service  of  the  Confederate  States. 

III.  The  proceedings  in  the  foregoing  case  having  been  laid 
before  the  Secretary  of  War,  to  be  submitted  to  the  President, 
the  following  orders  are  made  thereon  : 

The  proceedings,  findings  and  sentence  in  the  cnse  of  First 
Lieut,  and  Adjt.  John  N.  C.  Stockton,  Ist  Virginia  Infantry,  are 
approved ;  but  in  consideration  of  the  previous  good  character, 
and  the  recommendation  of  the  Court  and  Commanding  General, 
the  sentence  is  remitted,  and  Lieut,  and  Adjt.  Stockton  will  be 
restored  to  duty  with  his  regiment.  Ilis  conduct  is  deemed  highly 
discreditable  ;  but  the  department  indulges  the  hope  that  this 
exercise  of  clemency  towards  him  will  exert  a  beneficial  influence 
over  his  future  course,  both  as  an  officer  and  citizen. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  ]  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  44.  j  Richmond,  April,  16,  1863. 

The  following  Acts  having  been  duly  approved  by  the  Presi- 
dent, are  published  for  the  information  of  all  concerned: 


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An  Act  to  pwhibit  the  Punishment  of  Soldiers  hy  WMiyping, 

**  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  Aw  erica  do  enact, 
t'lat  from  and  after  the  pas.^age  of  this  act,  it  shall  not  be  lawful 
for  anj  court  martial  or  military  court  to  cause  any  soldier  in  the 
service  of  the  Confederate  States  to  be  punished  by  whipping,  or 
the  infliction  of  stripes  upon  his  person  ;  and  that  all  laws  and 
customs  contravening  the  provisions  of  this  act,  be  and  the  same 
are  hereby  repealed. 

Sec.  2.  That  article  twenty  of  the  Articles  of  War  be  so  amen- 
ded as  to  read  as  follows  :  '  All  officers  and  soldiers  who  have 
received  pay,  or  have  been  duly  enlisted  in  the  service  of  the 
Confederate  States,  and  shall  be  convicted  of  having  deserted  the 
same,  shall  sulfer  death  or  confinement  in  a  penitentiary,  with  or 
without  hard  labor,  for  a  period  not  less  than  one  year  or  more 
than  five,  or  such  other  punishment,  not  inconsistent  with  the 
provisions  of  this  act,  as  the  court  martial  or  military  court  may 
determine.'  "     [Approved  April  13,  1863.] 

An  Act  to  Exempt  Contractors  for  Carrrjing  the  Mails  of  the  Con' 
federate  States  and  the  Drivers  of  Post  Coaches  and  Hacks  from 
Mditary  Service. 

"  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact* 
That  the  contractors  for  carrying  the  Mails  of  the  Confederate 
States  shall  be  exempt  from  the  performance  of  military  duty  in 
the  armies  of  the  Confederate  States,  from  and  after  the  passage 
of  this  act,  during  the  time  they  are  such  contractors  :  provided, 
that  no  more  than  one  contractor  shall '  be  exempt  on  any  one 
route,  and  that  no  moie  than  one  member  of  any  firm  of  contrac- 
tors shall  be  exempt,  and  no  contractor  on  any  route  of  less  than 
ten  miles  in  length,  and  on  which  the  mail  is  carried  on  horse, 
shall  be  exempt  under  this  act ;  and  if  any  one  or  more  members 
of  any  sutdi  firm  be  exempt,  from  age  or  other  cause,  from  the 
performance  of  military  duty,  the  other  member  or  members  of 
such  firm  shall  not  be  exempt  by  this  act  on  account  of  being 
mail  contractors :  and  provided  J'u)iher,  ihixi  no  person  to  whom 
a  contract  for  carrying  the  mails  may  be  transferred,  with  the 
consent  of  the  post  olKce  department,  after  the  passage  of  this 
act,  shall  be  extmipt  from  military  service  on  that  account. 

"  Sec.  2.  That  the  drivers  of  post  coaches  and  hacks  for  carry- 
ing the  mails,  on  all  routes  where  the  weight  of  the  mails  re- 
quires that  they  should  be  carried  in  coaches  or  hacks,  shall  be 
exempt  from  military  service  in  the  armies  of  the  Confederate 
States,  from  and  after  the  passage  of  this  act,  so  long  as  they 
continue  to  be  employed  as  such  drivers:  provided  the  contractor 
by  whom  any  such  driver  is  employed  shall  take  and  subscribe 
nn  oath,  to  bo  furnished  to  the  enrolling  oificor,   that  the  weight 


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of  the  mails  on  his  route  requires  the  use  of  coadies  or  hac^s  for 
their  conveyance,  nnd  that  he  has  not  a  greater  number  of  dri- 
vers emph)yed  in  his  service  than  are  indispensable  to  enable  him 
to  fulfil  his  contract  for  carrying  the  mails  ;  and  that  he  will  not, 
while  a  contractor,  empl(»y  a  greater  number  of  drivers  than  may 
be  indispensably  necessary  for  that  purpose ;  and  that  he  will 
give  notice  to  the  enrolling  officer  when  any  such  driver  ceases 
to  be  in  his  employment."  [Approved  April  14,  1863.] 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  "j  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office* 

No.  45.  j  Richmond,  April  18,  1863. 

I.  The  issue  of  whiskey  to  troops,  except  in  cases  of  extraordi- 
nary fatigue  and  exposure,  is  prohibited.  Commanding  officers 
are  enjoined  to  see  that  this  prohibition  is  enforced. 

II.  Paragraph  IV,  General  Orders,  No.  32,  April  30th,  1862, 
is  80  modified  as  to  allow  only  a  two  horse  wagon  and  team  to 
each  regiment  in  the  field,  to  be  appropriated  to  the  transporta- 
tion of  hospital  supplies. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  ]  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  46.  ]  ,     Richmond,  April  20,  1863. 

I.  At  a  General  Court  Martial,  held  in  the  city  of  Richmond, 
Va.,  April  5,  1803,  pursuant  to  General  Orders,  No.  35,  Head 
Quarters  Department  of  Henrico,  1862,  and  of  which  Col.  James 
L.  Henderson  is  president,  was  arraigned  and  tried: 

Major  Elias  Griswold,  P.  A.  C.  S.,  on  the  following  Charges 
and  Specifications : 

Charge  \st,  -        -        -  Disobedience  of  lawful  orders. 

Specification— In  this,  that  the  said  Major  Elias  Griswold,  on 
or  about  the  2d  day  of  January  1863,  at  Richmond,  Va.,  did  give 


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a  written  permit  to  one  James  E.  Lipscomb,  to  bring  into  thegaid 
city  of  Richmond  ninety-one  barrels  of  brandy,  in  violation  of 
the  lawful  command  of  his  superior  officer,  Brig.  Gen.  Jno.  II. 
Winder. 

Charge  2cf,        ...  Conduct  to  the  prejudice  of  good 

order  and  military  discipline. 

Specification — In  this,  that  the  said  Mnjor  Elias  Griswold,  on 
or  about  the  2d  day  of  January,  1863,  at  Richmond,  Va.,  did  give 
a  written  permit  to  one  James  E.  Lipscomb,  to  bring  into  the 
said  city  of  Rii'hmond  ninety-one  barrels  of  brandy,  after  the 
publication  of  General  Orders,  No.  41,  issued  from  the  Head 
Quarters  of  the  Department  of  Henrico,  requiring  that  all  appli- 
cations for  permits  to  bring  intoxicating  liquors  into  Richmond, 
should  be  addressed  to  said  Head  Quarters. 

Finding  and  Sentence  of  the  Court, 

The  Court  having  maturely  considered  the  evidence  adduced, 
find  the  accused  as  follows  : 

Of  the  Specification  of  1st  Charge,     ....  Guilty. 

Of  the  1st  Charge, Guilty. 

Of  the  Specification  of  2d  Charge,      ....  Guilty. 

Of  the  2d  Charge,      -        ...        .        .        .  Guilty. 

And  the  Court  do  therefore  sentence  the  said  Mnjor  Elias  Gris- 
wold to  be  privately  reprimanded  by  the  Commauder  of  the  De- 
partment of  Henrico. 

The  Court  is  thus  lenient  in  its  sentence,  because  it  is  satisfied, 
that  although  there  was  a  technical  violation  of  orders  by  the 
accused,  it  arose  from  inadvertence,  and  was  not  accompanied 
with  any  evil  intent  or  improper  purpose. 

II.  The   proceedings,  finding  and   sentence  in   the  foregoing 
case  having  been  submitted  to  the  Secretary  of  War,  and  by  him 
duly  considered,  are  approved.     Major  Griswold  will  therefore  be 
released  from  arrest  and  restored  to  duty. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  i  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  GrncE, 

No.  47.  S  Richmotid,  April  21,  1863. 

The  followiog  Regulations  respecting  the  rights  of  "  Partisan 


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Rangers,"  under  the  Act  of  April  2l8t,  1862,  are  published  for 
the  information  of  all  concerned  : 

1.  The  Act  of  April  2Ist,  1862,  provides,  that  for  any  arms 
and  munitions  of  war  captured  from  the  enemy  by  Partizan  Ran- 
gers, and  delivered  up  at  such  place  as  may  be  designated  by  the 
Commanding  General,  the  Rangers  shall  be  paid  their  full  value 
in  such  manner  as  the  Secretary  of  War  may  prescribe. 

2.  The  terms  "  arms  and  munitions  of  war"  w^ill  include  all 
smalt  arms  and  artillery,  ammunition,  infantry  accoutrements 
and  cavalry  equipments,  and  also  cavalry  and  artillery  horses. 
The  animals  referred  to  will  be  appraised  by  competent  officers, 
under  the  orders  of  the  Commanding  General,  and  will  be  paid 
for  when  delivered  up,  by  any  quartermaster,  who  will  take  re- 
ceipts from  the  parties  entitled  to  receive  compensation,  and 
afterwards  account  for  the  property,  as  in  the  case  of  an  ordinary 
purchase.  The  rest  of  the  property  specified  will  be  paid  for  in 
accordance  with  paragraph  II,  General  Orders,  No.  20,  current 
series. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  ]  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'i/s  Office* 

No.  48.  j  Richmond,  April  22,  1863. 

I.  The  following  Act  of  Congress  having  been  duly  approved 
by  the  President,  is  published  for  the  information  of  all  con- 
cerned : 

"  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enactj 
That  any  officer,  non-commissioned  officer  or  private  now  in  the 
military  service  of  the  Confederate  States,  who  has  been  elected 
or  appointed  since  entering  said  service,  or  who  may  hereafter  be 
elected  or  appointed  a  Senator  or  Representative  in  Congress,  or 
in  any  State  Legislature,  or  Judge  of  the  Circuit,  District  or  Su- 
perior Courts  of  Law  or  Equity  in  any  State  of  the  Confederacy, 
District  Attorney,  Clerk  of  any  Court  of  Record,  Sheriff,  Ordi- 
nary, Judge  of  any  Court  of  Probate,  Collestor  of  State  Taxes 
(not  to  exceed  one  for  each  county)  or  Parish  Recorder,  upon 
furnishing  the  Secretary  of  War  with  evidence  of  such  election 
or  appointment,  if  an  officer,  his  resignation  shall  be  promptly 
accepted  ;  and  if  a  non-commissioned  officer  or  private,  he  shall 


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b©  honorably  discharged  by  the  Secretary  of  War/'     [Approved 
April  2d,  1863.] 

II.  The  evidence  required  as  to  the  election  referred  to,  will  bo 
a  ecrtijicate  of  the  fact  from  the  clerk  of  the  county  or  parish  or 
other  officer,  whose  duty  it  may  be  to  certify  to  such  elections, 
under  the  laws  of  the  State,  in  manner  and  form  required  by 
said  laws.  This  certificate  must  accompany  the  resignation, 
through  the  usual  channel  of  communication,  as  prescribed  in 
General  Orders,  No.  3,  and  the  Army  Regulations. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  ^  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  49.  3  Richmond,  April  ^2^,1%^^, 

I.  The  following  regulation  is  made,  and  will  hereafter  be  ob- 
served in  the  army,  relative  to  the  clothing  of  dece  ised  soldiers: 

Upon  tho  death  of  any  soldier,  the  surgeon  in  charge  of  the 
hospital  at  which  it  occurs,  will  cause  an  inventory  to  be  made  of 
all  his  military  clothing,  and  will  make  a  fair  appraisement  of 
each  article  thereof.  It  will  then  be  turned  over  to  the  nearest; 
quartermaster  for  re-issue.  The  original  appraisement  shall  be 
forwarded  to  the  second  -auditor,  to  secure  its  value  to  the  per- 
sonal representatives  of  the  deceased  soldier,  and  a  copy  thereof 
be  furnished  to  the  receiving  quartermaster,  who  will  issue  the 
clothing  at  the  appraised  prices,  and  not  at  those  set  forth  in 
General  Orders,  No.  100,  last  series.  * 

*  Amended  by  General  Orders,  No.  93. 

II.  Engineer  officers,  while  employed  on  reconnoissances,  sur- 
veys or  other  duty,  under  special  orders  causing  temporary  ab- 
sence from  their  posts  or  from  the  head  quarters  of  the  armies, 
corps,  divisions  or  brigades  with  which  they  may  be  serving, 
shall  be  allowed  their  personal  expenses,  to  be  paid  out  of  the 
appropriation  for  engineer  service,  in  lieu  of  all  allowances  for 
fuel,  quarters  and  forage  for  the  same  period.  Each  account 
must  be  certified  to  by  the  party  receiving  the  payment,  and  ap- 
proved by  the  officer  under  whose  orders  he  acts. 

III.  All  supplies  of  contractors  engaged  exclusively  in  iron  or 
munitions  of  war  for  the  government,  are  exempted  from  im- 
pressment, either  at  tho  ostablishraont  or  at  the  place  of  pur- 

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chase.     Satisfactory  evidence  by  atBdavit  or  otherwise  may  be  re- 
quired to  establish  ownership. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  )  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  50.  )  Richmond,  April  25,  1863. 

I.  At  a  General  Court  Martial,  convened  at  Grenada,  Missis- 
liippi,  by  virtue  of  Special  Orders  of  January  3,  1863,  from  Head 
Quarters  Army  of  the  Mississippi,  was  arraigned  and  tried: 

Lieut.  J.  W.  Gibson,  Co.  D,  22d  Regiment  Miss.  Volunteers, 
m.  the  following  Charges.  (The  specifications  are  omitted  in  this 
order:) 

Charge  \st — Yiolation  of  the  83d  Article  of  War. 
Charge  2d — Violation  of  the  7th  Article  of  War. 
Charge  Zd — Violation  of  the  45th  Article  of  War. 

II.  Finding  and  Sentence  of  the  Court, 

The  Court  having  maturely  considered  the  evidence  adduced, 
find  the  accused,  Lieut.  J.  W.  Gibson,  Co.  D,  22d  Regiment  Miss. 
Volunteers,  as  follows : 

Of  the  Specification  of  1st  Charge,              -            -  Guilty- 

Of  the  Ist  Charge,                  ....  Guilty 

Of  the  Specification  of  2d  Charge,               •            -  Not  Guilty' 

Of  the  2d  Charge,                   ....  Not  Guilty. 

Of  the  Specification  of  3d  Charge,               -            -  Not  Guilty. 

Of  the  3d  Charge,                ....  Not  Guilty. 

And  do  therefore  sentence  him  to  be  dismissed  the  service. 

III.  The  proceedings  in  the  foregoing  case  having  been  laid 
before  the  Secretary  of  War,  to  be  submitted  to  the  Pre8iden% 
the  following  decision  has  been  pronounced  thereon: 

The  finding  and  sentence  are  approved ;  but  in  consideration 
of  the  recommendation  of  the  Court,  and  the  good  behavior  of 
Lieut.  Gibson  while  a  soldier  in  the  ranks,  the  penalty  of  dismis- 
sal from  the  service  is  remitted,  and  he  will  be  publicly  repri- 
manded. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General 


5i 

GENERAL  ORDERS,  ]  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Qe^'l'z  Oifick, 

No.  51.  J  liichmoiid,  A2Jra2d,lS(jZ. 

To  s^implify  (he  manner  of  efFeotino;  dlscharo;os  and  lurloufrha, 
the  f(illo\vin;i;  orders,  condenstMj  from  those  heretofore  issued,  are 
published  I'ur  r>he  governaient  of  the  arn»y  : 

I.  "When  a  solditM*,  present  wifh-hi.s  regiment  or  compniy,  shall 
be  unfit  for  military  service  in  coMJsequpn.-e  of  woundvS,  disease  or 
infirmity,  his  cajttain  shall  forward  to  the  comniiiiider  td'  \\\c;  de- 
partment or  of  the  army  in  the  field,  thfouirh  the  vegioiftual,  bri- 
gade and  other  coniminders,  a  statement  of  the  ease,  with  "  cer- 
tificates of  disability,"  that  he  is  totally  unfit,  for  service,  siti;Med 
by  the  suri>;eon  of  rjie  battalion  or  regiment,  according  to  tiie  form 
prescribed  in  the  Medical  Regulations.  If  the  recominenclation 
for  the  discharge  of  the  invalid  be  approved  by  the  departmentor 
array  commander,  he  will  endorse  the  order  for  the  discharge, 
upon  the  "certi£.'ate  of  disability  ;"  which  will  be  sent  back,  to 
be  signed  by  the  commanding  oliicer  of  the  regiment  or  battalion 
to  which  the  invalid  soldier's  company  belongs,  and  afterw^ards 
forwarded  by  the  Captain  to  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector  Gene- 
ral. The  "discharge"  will  be  signed  by  the  regimental  or  bat- 
talion commander,  and  "final  statements/'  by  the  company  com- 
mander. * 

IT,  When  the  soldier,  present  iviiJi  his  command,  is  certified  to 
be  laboring  under  temporary  disability,  which  requires  his  re- 
moval or  a  change  of  climate,  the  commander  of  the  department 
or  of  the  army  in  the  field  may  grant  a  furlough  of  thirty  days  ; 
which,  in  extreme  cases,  may  be  extended  by  him  to  sixty  days. 

III.  "When  a  soldier  ?**  aZ;5en<  from  his  company,  battalion  or 
regiment,  in  hospital,  and  is  unfit  for  military  service,  for  reasons 
set  forth  in  paragraph  Tof  these  Orders,  the  commandant  of  the 
post,  upon  the  recommendation  of  an  examining  board,  to  con- 
sist of  two  or  more  medical  officers,  established  by  the  command- 
ant of  the  post  (or  if  there  be  no  such  board,  the  senior  surgeon 
of  the  hospital),  may  grant  him  a  furlough  for  thirty  days,  sub- 
ject to  extension  by  the  commander  of  the  department  or  army 
in  the  fielil,  when  he  will  maUo  out  "certificates  of  disability,'' 
and  send  them  to  the  commander  of  the  company,  to  be  forward- 
ed by  hira,  as  prescribed  in  the  preceding  paragraph.  But  when 
access  to  commanders  is  difficult,  and  attended  with  great  delayy 
and  the  case  is  urgent,  the  certificates  of  disability  may  be  for- 
warded by  the  surgeon  directly  to  the  Surgeon  General,  for  hia 

•  Am.en.IeJ  by  Par,  V,  General  Orders,  No.  141. 


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approval ;  which  being  given,  the  discharge  will  be  authorized 
from  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector  General's  office;  and  the  sur- 
geon will  make  out  "final  statements."  * 

IV.  When  a  soldier,  absent  from  his  coinmand,  certified  by  the 
surgeon  or  assistant  surgeon  of  the  army  to  9  unfit  for  present 
duty,  and  that  his  health  requires  his  lemov  '  or  change  of  cli- 
mate, the  commander  of  the  post,  if  access  to  t'  "  commander  of 
the  department  or  of  the  army  in  the  field  be  difii  It,  may  grant 
the  soldier  a  furlough,  not  to  esceed  thirty  days,  and  submit  the 
application  for  a  longer  period,  if  necessary,  to  the  General  to 
whose  command  the  soldier  may  belong;  or,  without  granting 
the  furlough,  he  may  refer  it  to  the  discretion  of  such  Com- 
manding General.  "^ 

V.  In  every  case  where  a  soldier  has  been  discharged  under 
paragraph  III,  by  orders  from  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector  Gene- 
ral's office,  and  the  "  descriptive  list"  and  "final  statements" 
cannot  be  had,  he  will  be  mustered  for  payment  upon  hospital 
rolls  by  the  surgeon  in  charge,  upon  his  affidavit,  taken  before 
one  or  more  witnesses,  that  he  has  not  received  pay  for  the  pe- 
riod for  which  he  claims  it  to  be  due,  and  that  he  is  not  indebted 
to  the  Confederate  States  government  beyond  the  amount  stated 
by  him.  "^ 

VI.  Due  notices  of  all  furloughs  and  discharges  granted  under 
these  Orders,  will  be  forwarded,  through  department  and  army 
commanders,  to  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector  General,  and  to  the 
immediate  commander  of  the  company  to  which  the  soldier  be- 
longs. 

VII.  All  Orders  heretofore  issued  relating  to  furloughs  and 
discharges  for  the  causes  aforesaid,  are  hereby  revoked. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  |  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  52.  J  RkJimond,  April  30,  1863. 

I.  At  the  Military  Court  appointed  under  act  of  Congress,  ap- 
proved October  9th,  18o2,  for  the  Army  Corps  of  Major  General 
Samuel  Jones,  and  held  at  Newborn,  Pulaski  county,  Va.,  was 
arraigned  and  tried : 

*  Revoked  by  Par.  IX,  General  Orders,  No.  159. 


5S 

Private  Granv'  le  S.  McCotchen,  Co.  C,  22d  Va.  Voluuteors", 
on  the  following  ^.    irge  and  Specification  : 

Charge,  Violation  of  the  20th  Article  of  War. 

Speciflcation—Th^i  ihe  said  prirate  Granville  S.  McCutchon, 
Company  C,  22d  Va.  ^  lunteers,  on  or  about  the  7th  day  of  May, 
1862,  on  the  inarch  froia  >Yhite  Sulphur  Springs,  in  Greenbrier 
to  Jackson's  river  depot,  in  Alleghany  county,  Va.,  did  desert 
his  company  and  regiment,  and  remained  absent  therefrom  until 
about  the  8th  day  of  January  next  ensuing,  vrhen  he  was  arrest- 
ed and  brought  back  to  his  company  and  regiment. 

II.  Finding  and  Sentence  of  the  Court, 

Having  mutually  weighed  and  considered  the  evidence  ad- 
duced, the  Court  find  the  accused  as  follows : 

Of  the  Specification  of  the  Charge,  -  -  Guilty. 

Of  the  Charge,  .....  Guilty! 

And  do  therefore  sentence  him  to  be  shot  to  death  by  musket- 
ry, at  such  time  and  place  as  the  Commanding  General  may  ap- 
point. 

III.  The  proceedings,  findings  and  sentence  in  the  foregoing 
case  having  been  laid  before  the  Secretary  of  War,  for  the  decis* 
ion  of  the  President,  the  following  orders  are  made  thereon  : 

To  justify  a  general  charge  of  violation  of  an  Article  of  War, 
some  offence  must  be  defined  and  prohibited,  or  some  duty  pre- 
scribed in  the  Article.  But  the  20th  Article  of  War  merely  de- 
nounces the  'punishment  to  he  inflicted  for  desertion;  and  a  charge 
of  its  violation  is  obviously  too  indefinite  and  uncertain  to  justi- 
fy action.  The  defect  is  fatal,  and  vitiates  the  whole  proceed- 
ings, which  are  therefore  set  aside. 

Private  McCutchen  will  be  released  from  confinement,  and  re- 
turned to  duty.     It  is  hoped  that  his  accidental  escape  from  pun- 
ishment will  have  a  good  efi'ect,  and  induce  him  hereafter  to  con- 
duct himself  as  becomes  a  soldier  in  the  defence  of  his  country. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutayit  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  "j  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 


No.  63-  [ 


Richmondy  May  1,  1863. 


The  following  Act  of  Congress,  approved  by  the  President,  is 
published  for  the  information  and  direction  of  nil  conceruod,  in 


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cOTinection  xvith  the  Act  relating  to  irapressmentsi,  heretofore  an- 
TiouncP'l  ^'n  Genera]  Orders,  No.  37,  from  the  Adjutmt  and  In- 
spector General's  Office,  April  6th,  1863,  and  as  supplementary 
to  said  Act : 

All  Act  to  amend  an  Act  entitled  an  Act  to  Regulate  Impressments 
hy  Officers  of  the  Army. 

"  The  (■ongress  of  the  Conjederaie  States  of  America  do  enact. 
That  in  all  ca^es  of  appraisement  provided  for  in  ?aid  Act,  the 
officer  impressing  the  property  shall,  if  he  believe  tlie  nppraise- 
ment  to  Ije  fair  and  just,  endorse  upon  it  his  approval  ;  if  not,  he 
hhall  endorse  upon  it  liis  reasons  for  refusing,  and  deliver  the 
same,  vrith  a  receipt  for  the  property  impressed,  to  the  owner, 
his  agent  or  attorney,  and  as  soon  as  practicable,  forward  a  copy 
of  the  leceipt  and  nppriiiperaent,  and  liis  endorsement  thereon, 
to  the  board  of  appraiser^  appointed  by  the  President  and  Gov- 
ernor of  the  State,  who  shall  revise  the  same,  and  make  final 
valuation,  so  as  to  give  just  compensation  for  the  property  taken  ; 
which  valuation  shall  be  paid  by  the  proper  department  for  use 
of  which  the  property  was  taken,  on  the  certificate  of  the  ap» 
praisers,  as  provided  in  the  act  of  which  this  is  amendatory." 
[Approved,  April  27th,  1863.J 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  GeneraL 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  ^  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Officf., 

No.  54.  ]  Michmo7id,  May  2,  ISQ3. 

I.  At  a  General  Court  Martial,  convened  at  Shelbyvilie,  Ten- 
nessee, by  virtue  of  Special  Orders,  No.  54,  of  Marcli  1,  1863, 
Head  Quarters  Army  of  Tennessee,  was  arraigned  and  tried  : 

Assistant  Surgeon  Edward  Cross.  31st  Regiment  Ark.  Volun- 
teers, on  the  following  Charge  and  Specification : 

Charge,  .  .  -  _  Absent  without  leave. 

Specif  cation — In  this,  that  the  eaid  Assistant  Surgeon  Edward 
Crots,  31st  Ark.  Regiment,  did  leave  his  command,  without  pro- 
per authority,  on  or  about  the  1st  February,  1863,  and  remain 
absent  until  the  26th  of  February,  1863.  Ail  this  at  or  near 
Shelbyvilie,  Tennessee,  in  and  between  the  1st  February  and  the 
26th  February,  1863. 


II.  iindinj  and  Sentence  of  the  Court. 

The  Court  having  affirmed  the  plea  of  **  guilt?/  "  to  the  Charlie 
and  Specification  by  the  accused,  do  sentence  him  to  bo  dis- 
missed from  the  service  of  the  Confederate  States. 

III.  The  proceedinj^s,  findings  and  sentence  in  the  foregoing 
case  having  been  submitted  to  the  Secretary  of  War,  for  the  de- 
cision of  the  President,  are  by  him  onproved  ;  but  in  considera- 
tion of  the  previous  good  conduct  and  efficient  services  of  Assis- 
tant Surgeon  Cross,  the  sentence  against  him  is  commuted  to  for- 
feiture of  all  pay  during  the  period  of  his  absence  from  hispost 
of  service ;  and  he  \\ill  accordingly  be  released  from  arrest,  and 
returned  to  duty. 


By  order. 


S.  COOPER. 

Adjutant  and  Inspector  General, 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  |  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  OrncE, 

No.  55.  )  Richmond,  May  5,  1863. 

I.  At  a  General  Court  Martial,  convened  by  virtue  of  General 
Orders,  No.  128,  of  November  25th,  1862,  from  Head  Quarters 
Earley's  Brigade,  was  arraigned  and  tried  : 

Captain  John  W.  Bell,  Quartermaster  49th  Regiment  Va. 
Volunteers,  on  the  following  charges.  (The  Specifications,  on 
account  of  their  number  and  length;  are  omitted  in  this  order :) 

Charge  \st,  .  «  Absence  without  leave. 

Charge  M,  .  .  Conduct  to  the  prejudice  of  good 

order  and  military  discipline. 
Charge  3t?,  .  ,  Conduct  unbecoming  an  officer 

and  gentleman. 

II.  Finding  and  Sentence  of  the  Court. 

The  Court  having  maturely  considered  the  evidence  adduced, 
find  the  accused.  Captain  John  W.  Bell,  49tih  Regiment  Va.  Vol- 
unteers, as  follows  : 

0^  Isfc  Specification  of  Ist  Charge,      .  .  .         Guilty. 

Of  2d  Specification,  .         That  ho  was  absent  without  leav^3 

at  the' time  specified,  but  that  ho 
was  pliysiciiUy  unable  to  follow 
bis  regiment  on  its  march,  and 
therefore  without  guilt. 


Of  the  Ist  Chnrp:e,        .  .  .  .  .        Guilty. 

Of  the  Specification  of  2d  Charge,       ,  .  .         Guilty. 

Of  the  2d  Charge,         .....         Guilty. 

Of  the  Specification  of  3d  Charge,        .  .  .         Guilty, 

to  the  extent  of  addressing  a  letter  to  the  Qurtermaster 
General  C.  S.  A.,  couched  in  words  and  figures,  set  forth 
in  the  Specification,  and  not  guilty  of  the  residue. 

Of  the  3d  Charge,         .  .  .  .  Not  Guilfy. 

Of  the  Specification  of  4th  Charge,     .  .  .         Guilty. 

Of  the  4th  Charge,        .  .  .  .  .         Guilty. 

And  the  Court  do  therefore  sentence  the  said  Captain  J.  W. 
Bell,  Quartermaster  49th  Regiment  Va.  Volunteers,  to  be 
cashiered. 

III.  The  proceedings  in  this  case  having  been  submitted  to  the 
Secretary  of  War,  for  the  orders  of  the  President,  the  following 
decision  has  been  made  thereon : 

"Upon  consideration  of  the  testimony  to  the  character  of 
Captain  Bell,  as  an  efficient  and  capable  officer,  of  his  zeal  in 
the  service,  and  also  the  recommendation  of  the  Court,  the  de- 
partment, though  entirely  concurring  with  the  Commanding 
General  in  his  estimate  of  the  gravity  of  the  offence  committed, 
has  determined  to  remit  the  sentence  of  the  Court  Martial  in  his 
case.  He  will  therefore  be  released  from  arrest,  and.  return  to 
duty." 


By  order. 


S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Ins2)ector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,]         Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  56.  J  Richmond,  May  7,  1863. 

I.  At  a  General  Court  Martial,  convened  at  Camp  of  Pender's 
Brigade,  by  virtue  of  General  Orders,  No.  23,  February  19th, 
1863,  from  the  Head  Quarters  Department  of  Northern  Virginia, 
was  arraigned  and  tried  : 

Second  Lieutenant  J.  K.  Martin,  22d  N.  C.  Volunteers,  on  the 
followingCharges — (The  Specifications  are  omitted  in  this  order:) 

Charge  \st,      .  .        Violation  of  the  45th  Article  of  War. 

Charge  2d,      .  .        Violation  of  the  83d  Article  of  War, 


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II.  Finding  and  Sentence  of  the  Court. 

The  Court  havicg  maturely  considered  the  evidence  Adduced, 
find  the  accused,  Second  Lieut.  J.  K,  Martin,  22d  N.  C.  Volun- 
teers, as  follows : 

Of  the  Specification  of  lat  Charge,           .            .  Not  Guilty. 

Of  the  1st  Charge,             ....  Not  Guilty. 

Of  the  Specification  of  2d  Charge,            .             .  Guilty. 

Of  the  2d  Charge,              ....  Guilty. 

And  sentence  him  to  be  dismissed  the  service. 

in.  The  proceedings,  findings  and  sentence  in  the  foregoing 
case  having  been  laid  before  the  Secretary  of  War,  for  the  decision 
of  the  President,  are  approved  ;  but  upon  the  recommendation  of 
the  Court,  the  sentence  is  remitted.  Lieutenant  Martin  will 
therefore  be  relieved  from  arrest,  and  restored  to  duty. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General, 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  ]  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office. 

No.  57.  ]  Richmond,  May  8, 1863. 

The  operation  of  paragraph  IV,  General  Orders,  No.  28,  March 
12th,  1863,  from  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector  General's  OflSce,  is 
80  far  modified  for  the  present  as  to  allow  payment  of  officers  in 
hospitals,  without  the  certificate  of  last  payment,  as  required  in 
said  Orders,  No.  28  ;  but  the  Quartermaster  making  such  pay- 
ment will  furnish  certificates  as  heretofore  required  of  him. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,]         Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  58.  J  Richmond,  May  11,  1863. 

I.  The  following  Notice,  relative  to  Exchanged  Prisoners,  is 
published  for  the  information  of  all  concerned: 


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ExcHANGi  Notice,  No.  5. 

Bichmond,  May  9,  1863. 

The  following  Confederate  officers  and  men  have  been  duly 
exchanged,  and  are  hereby  so  declared  : 

1.  All  officers  and  men  vfho  have  been  delivered  at  City  Point 
at  any  time  previous  to  May  6th,  1863. 

2.  All  officers  captured  at  any  place  before  the  1st  of  April, 
1803,  vrho  have  been  released  on  parole. 

3.  All  men  captured  in  North  Carolina  or  Virginia  before  the 
1st  of  March,  1863,  who  have  been  released  on  parole. 

4.  The  officers  and  men  captured  and  paroled  by  Gen.  S.  P. 
Carter,  in  his  expedition  to  East  Tennessee  in  December  last. 

5.  The  officers  and  men  .captured  and  paroled  by  Lieut.  Col. 
Stewart  at  Van  Buren,  Arkansas,  January  25th,  1363  ;  by  Col. 
Dickey,  in  December,  1862,  in  his  march  to  the  Mobile  and  Ohio 
rail  road,  and  by  Capt.  Cameron,  at  Corinth,  Mississippi  in  De- 
cember, 1862. 

6.  The  officers  and  men  paroled  at  Oxford,  Miss.,  on  the  23d 
of  December,  1862;  at  Des  Arc,  Arkansas,  on  the  17th  of  Janu- 
ary 1863,  and  at  Baton  Eouge,  La.,  on  the  23d  February,  1863. 

7.  All  persons  who  have  been  captured  on  the  sea  or  the  waters 
leading  to  the  same,  or  upo^  the  sea  coast  of  the  Confederate  or 
United  States,  at  any  time  previous  to  December  10th,  1862. 

8.  All  civilians  who  have  been  arrested  at  any  time  before  the 
6th  of  May,  1863,  and  released  on  parol,  are  discharged  from  any 
and  every  obligation  contained  in  said  parol.  If  any  such  person 
has  taken  any  oath  of  allegiance  to  the  United  States,  or  given 
any  bond,  or  if  his  release  was  accompanied  with  any  other 
condition,  he  is  discharged  from  the  same. 

9.  If  any  persona  embraced  in  any  of  the  foregoing  setions,  or 
in  any  section  of  any  previous  Exchange  Notice,  wherein  they 
are  declared  exchanged,  are  in  any  Federal  prison,  they  are  to  be 
immediately  released  and  delivered  to  the  Confederate  authorities. 

Robert  Ould, 
Agent  of  Exchange, 

II.  All  persons,  whether  citizens  or  soldiers,  are  expressly  pro- 
hibited from  using  or  in  any  manner  interfering  with  fuel  or 
wood  cut  and  delivered  for  the  uso  of  rail  roades,  and  rail  road 
companies.  It  isof  the  first  importance  that  this  order  should 
be  observed,  and  it  will  be  strictly  obeyed  and  enforced  by  the 
army. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


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GENERAL  ORDERS,  |         Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 
No.  59.  ]  EicJimond,  Maij  12,  1863. 

I.  The  attention  of  regimental  commanders  throughout  the 
army  is  called  to  the  requirements  of  paragraph  I,  General 
Orders,  No.  60,  of  1862,  which  makes  it  the  duty  of  adjutants  to 
enquire  into  and  report  to  this  office  all  cases  of  slaves  serving 
with  their  respective  regiments,  without  written  authority  from 
their  masters.  It  is  specially  requiied  of  all  regimental  com- 
manders to  enforce  a  due  observance  of  said  order,  which  is 
hereby  extended  to  include  commanders  of  posts  and  senior  sur- 
geons of  hospitals,  who  will  make  similar  reports,  so  far  as  they 
relate  to  their  respective  commands,  to  those  required  from  adju- 
tants of  regiments. 

II.  It  will  be  the  duty  of  a  surgeon  in  charge  of  a  hospital, 
to  make  a  separate  Provision  Return  for  all  the  persons  attached 
to  the  hospital  who  may  be  entitled  to  rations,  except  the  sick  and 
wounded  soldiers,  and  the  issuing  commissary  will  issue  to  said 
persons  the  same  rations  that  are  issued  to  soldiers  in  the  field. 
These  rations  will  not  be  commuted,  if  the  commissary  can  issue 
in  kind.  If  he  cannot  issue  in  kind,  the  ration  may  be  commuted, 
at  sixty  cents  per  ration,  on  the  certificate  of  the  surgeon  as  to 
the  dates  and  facts. 

Separate  and  distinct  Provision  Returns  will  be  made  for  the 
sick  and  wounded  soldiers  in  the  hospital,  according  to  the  form 
hereunto  annex'ed,  marked  A.  No  portion  of  the  subsistence 
stores  drawn  for  the  sick  and  wounded  will  be  otherwise  appro- 
priated. 

The  attention  of  the  medical  directors  and  inspectors  is  par- 
ticularly directed  to  this  prohibition. 

III.  So  much  of  paragraph  V,  General  Orders,  No.  24,  of 
lcS62,  as  requires  ordnance  sergeants  to  make  returns  of  surplus 
stores  with  regiments  to  the  ordnance  bureau,  is  revoked.  All 
the  returns  required  by  the  Regulations,  of  ordnance  stores  in 
the  possession  of  regiments  or  battalions,  other  than  artillery, 
will  be  made  by  commanding  ofiBcers  of  the  same. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


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GENERAL  ORDERS,  1      '      Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 
No.  60.  ]  Richmond,  May  13,  1863. 

I.  The  exigencies  of  the  service  requiring  a  large  number  of 
artillery  horses,  all  public  horses  suitable  for  that  service,  em- 
ployed in  transportation  or  otherwise  with  arms  in  the  field,  will 
be  turned  over  to  the  Chief  Quartermasters  of  said  armies,  and 
will  supply  their  places  where  necessary  with  mules.  The  Chief 
Quartermasters  of  armies  are  charged  with  the  prompt  execution 

of  this  order,  under  the  direction  of  the  Commanding  Generals. 

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II.  At  posts  or  depots  other  than  those  immediately  belonging 
to  armies  in  the  field,  all  public  Ijprses  suited  for  artillery  will 
be  collected  under  the  orders  of  Major  A.  H.  Cole,  Inspector  Gen- 
eral Field  Transportation,  for  the  purpose  named  above,  and 
mules  substituted  where  necessary. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  ^  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  61.  )  Richmond,  May  15,  1863. * 

I.  Farmers  upon  whose  premites  horses  and  mules  have  been 
or  may  hereafter  be  left  by  the  enemy,  are  admonished  to  pursue 
the  requirements  of  the  laws  of  their  respective  states  respecting 
estrays,  so  far  as  to  have  the  same  properly  valued,  and  the  valu- 
tion  thereof  dulj  recorded  ;  and  where  it  is  not  apparent  that 
Ruch  property  was  the  property  of  the  United  States  government, 
to  have  advertisement  thereof  made  as  required  by  law. 

II.  Upon  compliance  with  the  above  admonition,  the  govern- 
ment will  not  assert  any  adverse  claim  to  such  horses  and  mules, 
unless  they  shall  exceed  in  value  the  property  whereof  the  citi- 
zens having  possession  may  have  been  despoiled  by  the  enemy, 
and  then  only  to  the  extent  of  such  excess  in  value. 

III.  All  officers  of  the  army  will  respect  the  rights  of  citizens, 
as  defined  and  conceded  in  the  foregoing  sections. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  1  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  62.  J  EicJimond,  May  16,  1863. 

I.  In  accordance  with  an  act  to  amend  an  act  entitled  an  act  to 
"better  provide  for  the  sick  and  wounded  of  the  army  in  hospital?", 
approved  M;iy  1st,  1863,  the  fullowinii:  modifications  in  General 
Orders,  No.  95,  last  series,  from  this  office,  are  published  : 

TJie  commuted  value  of  rations  for  sick  and  disabled  soldiers 
in  hospitals  (field  or  general),  will,  until  further  orders',  be  one 
dollar  and  twenty-five  cents. 

II.  Hospital  laundresses  will  be  paid  twenty-five  dollars  per 
month,  and  allowed  rations  and  quarters. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER. 
'Adjutant  and  Inspector  General, 


GENERAL  ORDERS,]  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  63.  I  Bichmond,  May  18,  1863. 

I.  At  a  General  Court  Martial,   convened  by  General  Orders, 
No,  133,  of  November  7th,  1862,  from  Head  Quarters  Department 

of  Northern  Virginia,  was  arraigned  and  tried  : 

« 

First  Lieutenant  Robert  W.  Saunders,  8th  Ala.  Volunteers,  on 
the  following  Charges — (The  Specifications  are  omitted) : 

Charge  1st, Cowardice. 

Charge  2d,  Drunkenness. 

II.     Finding  and  Sentence  of  the  Court. 

After  due  deliberation,  the  Court  find  the  accused,  Lieut.  Ro- 
bert ^Y.  Saunders,  8th  Ala.  Regiment,  as  follows: 

Specification  1st,  Charge  1st,       -        -        -        -  Not  Guilty. 

Specification  2d,  Charge  2d,         -        -        -        -  Not  Guilty- 

Of  the  1st  Charge, Not  Guilty. 

Of  the  Specification  of  2d  Charge,       -         -         -  Guilty, 

except  the  words  "  without  provocation." 

Of  the  2d  Charge, Guilty. 

And  the  Court  do,  therefore,  sentence  him  to  be  cashiered. 

IIL  The  proceedings,   finding  and  sentence  in  the  foregoing 


case  have  been  submitted  to  the  Secretary  of  War,  to  be  laid  be- 
fore the  President,  and  the  following  orders  on  the  case  are  now 
made : 

Proceeding::;,  finding  and  sentence  approved  ;  but  it  appearing 
that  the  members  of  the  Court  recommend  a  pardon;  that  the 
regimental  and  other  officers  of  Lieut.  Saunders  concur  in  the 
recommendation  ;  and  that  material  witnesses  on  the  trial  against 
him  have  become  infamous  by  desertion — and  in  one  case  by 
desertion  to  the  enemy— the  sentence  is  remitted,  and  Lieut.  San- 
ders will  be  restored  to  duty  with  his  company. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,]  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  64.  ]  Bichmond,  May  19,  1863. 

L  At  a  Court  of  Enquiry,  convened  at  Richmond,  Virginia,  by 
virtue  of  Special  Orders,  No.  102,  of  April  27th,  1863,  from  the 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General's  OflBce,  "  to  examine  and  enquire 
into  certain  allegations  set  forth  on  papers  to  be  laid  before  the 
Court,  againpt  Col.  Robert  H.  Chilton,  Assistant  Adjutant  Gen- 
eral C.  S.  Army,  \Yhich  allegations  he  conceives  impugn  his 
character  as  an  officer,"  and  also  to  "report  the  facts  of  the  case,  - 
and  their  opinion  thereon,"  the  following  report  of  facts  was 
made  ;  and  having  been  submitted  by  the  Court,  with  their  opin- 
ion thereon,  as  required,  the  same  are  approved  by  the  Se^^retary 
of  "War,  and  are  now  published  for  the  information  «^  all  con- 
cerned : 

II.     Finding  and  Opinion  of  the  Court. 

On  a  careful  examination  of  the  testimony  adduced  in  this  case^ 
the  Court  find  the  following  facts : 

1st.  That  on  the  11th -July  1862,  Col.  R.  H.  Chilton,  then  on 
the  staff  of  General  Lee,  commanding  the  Army  of  Northern 
Virginia,  as  Adjutant  and  Inspector  General,  did  write  a  letter  to 
General  Cooper,  Adjutant  and  Inspector  General  of  the  Army, 
impeaching  the  professional  ability  of  Maj.  Gen.  Magruder,  de- 
nying his  fitness  for  responsible  command,  and  urging  a  revocation 
of  the  order  assigning  him  to  the  Trans-Mississippi  Department.- 

2d.  That  Col.  Chilton  incorporated  in  that  letter  an  offer  to 
make  good  his  allegations  before  a  Court  of  Enquiry. 


6:^ 

3d.  That  the  letter  was  communicated  to  the  President  by 
General  Cooper. 

4th.  That  being  apprised  of  this  disposition  of  the  letter,  Col. 
Chilton  immediately  furnished  Maj.  Gen.  Magruder  a  copy  {jf  so 
much  of  it  as  contained  his  (Cul.  Chilton's)  strictures  on  Maj. 
Gen.  Magrudcr's  official  conduct  and  capacity. 

Opinion. 

The  Court  is  of  opinion,  that  in  his  communication  to  General 
Cooper,  dated  July  11th,  18G2,  Col.  Chilton  was  actuated  by  no 
unworthy  motive,  but  by  a  laudable  regard  for  the  public  inter- 
est, and  that  his  conduct  in  the  transaction  was  such  as  became 
an  honorable  and  patriotic  officer. 

III.  The  Court  of  Enquiry  in  the  case  of  Col.  R.  II.  Chilton,  C. 
S.  Army,  is  hereby  dissolved. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


Mat  21,  1863. 
GENERAL  ORDERS, ) 

No.  65.  I 

I.  The  following  schedules  of  prices  for  articles  named  there- 
in, adopted  by  commissioneis  appointed  pursuant  to  law,  for  the 
States  of  Virginia  and  Georgia,  respectively,  are  announced  for 
the  information  of  all  concerned  ;  and  the  special  attention  of  of- 
ficers and  agents  of  the  government  is  directed  thereto  : 

II.— VIRGINIA. 

yCopy.'] — Schedule  A. 

Richmond,  May  18,  1863. 
Hon.  Jas.  A.  Seddon,  Sec'f/  of  War. 

Sir — The  Commissioners  appointed  under  section  5tb,  of  the 
bill  recently  passed  by  the  Confederate  Congress,  regulating  im- 
pressments, constitute  a  Board,  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  fix  upon 
the  prices  to  be  paid  by  the  government  for  all  property  impress- 
ed or  taken  for  the  public  use  aforesaid,  so  as  to  afford  just  com- 
pensation to  the  owners  thereof.  Said  commissioners  shall  agree 
upon  and  publish  a  schedule  of  prices  every  two  months,  or  of- 
tener,  if  they  shall  deem  it  proper. 

In  accordance  with  the  foregoing  requisition,  we  respectfully 
lay  before  you  the  following  schedule  of  prices  for  the  ensuing 


Dt* 


two  months.  Owing  to  the  difficulty  of  obtaining  satiBfactory 
information  as  to  pork,  beef  and  materials  of  clothing,  &c.,  we 
have  postponed  their  appraisement  till  our  next  assessment.  It 
is  proper  to  add  that  Mr.  W.  B.  Harrison  was  invited  to  act  as 
third  commissioner,  and  that  this  appraisement  received  the 
unanimous  approval  of  the  commissioners. 

The  following  are  the  maximum  prices  to  be  paid  for  the  arti- 
cles appraised,  at  all  cities  and  usual  places  of  sale,  and  when 
impressed  elsewhere,  the  same  prices  are  to  be  paid  elsewhere, 
less  the  cost  of  transpor^ation  to  the  city  or  usual  place  of  sale  to 
which  the  article  would  go  ordinarily  for  sale  from  that  neigh- 
borhood, or  less  the  cost  of  transportation  to  the  point  at  which 
the  government  needs' the  article,  and  wishes  it  to  be  sent :  Pro- 
vided, that  in  no  case  the  amount  deducted  for  transportation  as 
above  shall  exceed  25  cents  per  bushel  for  grain,  and  25  cents  per 
cwt.  for  long  forage,  flour,  bacon,  iron,  &c.  In  addition  to  the 
established  price  of  transportation,  the  government  to  pay  all 
legal  tolls,  and,  where  farmers  cannot  procure  nails  for  baling 
forage,  government  to  furnish  the  same  at  cost,  which  v/ill  be  de- 
ducted from  the  established  price  of  baling: 


>< 

E^ 

ARTICLE. 

DESCRIPTION. 

QUANTITY. 

PRICE. 

1   Wheat, 

Prime, 

White, 

Pr  bush  of     60  lbs. 

$  4  50 

2  -Flour, 

Good, 

Superfine, 

Pr  barrel  of  190  lbs. 

22  50 

3  Corn, 

Prime, 

White, 

Pr  bush  of     5G  lbs. 

4  00 

4  Unshelled  corn, 

(1 

(( 

*'         "        56  lbs. 

3  95 

5  Corn  meal, 

Good, 

"         «        50  lbs. 

4  20 

6  Rye, 

Prime, 

"         "        56  lbs. 

3  20 

7  Cleaned  oats, 

K 

"         "        32  lbs. 

2  00 

8  Wheat  bran, 

Good, 

"         "        17  lbs. 

50 

9   Shorts, 

(( 

"        22  lbs. 

70 

10  Brown  stuff. 

(C 

«'         "        28  lbs. 

90 

11    Ship  stuff. 

(( 

"         "        37  lbs. 

1  40 

12  Bacon, 

(( 

Hog  round, 

Per  pound. 

1  00 

13  Salt  pork, 

(( 

u 

1   00 

14  Lard, 

tC 

C( 

1  00 

15  Horses, 

1st  el's 

Artillery.  &c. 

A  v'ge  price  pr  head 

350  00 

16  Wool,     • 

Fair, 

Washed, 

Per  pound. 

3  00 

17  Peas, 

Good, 

Per  bush  of  60  lbs. 

4  00 

18  Beans, 

u 

((                                 ((         (C 

4  00 

19  Potatoes, 

(( 

Irish, 

(( 

4  00 

20  Potiitoes, 

u 

Sweet, 

(C 

5  00 

21   Onions, 

(( 

a 

5  00 

22   Dried  peaches, 

l( 

Pealed, 

of  38  lbs. 

8  00 

23  Dried  peackes, 

" 

Unpealed,, 

of  38  lbs, 

4  50 

GT 


ARTICLE. 

QUAL 

DESCRIPTION. 

QUANTITY. 

PRICE. 

24  l^ried  apples, 

Good, 

Pealed, 

Per  bush  of  28  lbs. 

$  3 

00 

25  Hay,  baled, 

41 

Timothy  or 

clover, 

Per  100  pounds. 

4 

00 

26  Hay,  baled, 

(( 

Orchard  or 

herd  grass, 

U                 u 

4 

00 

27  Hay,  unbaled, 

(( 

Orchard  or 

herd  grass, 

u                     «. 

3 

70 

28  Sh'f  oais,  baled, 

II 

(1                  (( 

4 

00 

29  Slvf  oats,  unb'd. 

U 

(t                 l( 

3 

70 

30  Blade  fodder, 

baled, 

a 

u                      t( 

4 

00 

31  Blade  fodder, 

unbaled, 

U 

((              (i 

3 

70 

32  Sliuclcs,  baled, 

u 

! 

2 

50 

33  Shucks,  unb'd, 

«( 

«                       X 

2 

20 

34  Wheat  straw, 

' 

baled, 

li 

(.                    n 

1 

30 

35  Wheat  straw, 

unbaled. 

U 

l(                     u 

1 

00 

36  Pasturage, 

(( 

Interior, 

Per  bead  pr  month. 

3 

00 

37  Pasturage, 

u 

Near  cities. 

C(                              (( 

6 

00 

38  Salt, 

u 

Per  bush  of  50  lbs. 

5 

00 

39  Soap, 

(( 

Per  pound, 

30 

40  Candles, 

<( 

Tallow, 

u 

1 

00* 

41   Vinegar, 

l( 

Cider, 

Per  gallon, 

1 

00 

42  Whiskey, 

(( 

Trade, 

u 

3 

00 

43   Sugar, 

u 

Brown, 

Per  pound, 

1 

00 

44  IMolasses, 

(( 

New  Orleans, 

Per  gallon, 

8 

00 

45  Rice, 

u 

Per'pound, 

J5 

46  Coffee, 

,     u 

Rio, 

11 

3 

00 

47  Tea, 

(( 

Trade, 

(( 

1^0 

00 

48  Vine^gar, 

(( 

Manufact'd, 

Per  gallon. 

50 

49  Pif,'  iron. 

" 

No.  1  quality. 

Per  ton. 

125 

00 

50  Pig  iron, 

t( 

No.  2 

u 

110 

00 

51    Pig  iron. 

«( 

No.  3 

(( 

100 

00 

52   Bloom  iron, 

(( 

(( 

180 

00 

53  Smith's  iron, 

(( 

Round,  plate 

and  bar, 

(( 

380 

00 

54  Leather, 

" 

Harness, 

Per  pound. 

2 

60 

55   Lentil er. 

" 

Sole, 

a 

£ 

40 

56   Leather, 

u           1 

Upper,               ! 

(( 

2 

80 

Wo  respeptfullj  8ugge><t  to  the  Secretary  of  War,  to  instruct 
the  agents  of  the  government  not  to  impress  any  article  of  food 


08 

going  into  cities  or  towns,  or  when  held  therein  by  retail  dealers 
in  small  quantities  for  the  daily  or  weekly  consumption  of  the 
inhabitants. 

But  this  restriction  not  to  apply  to  such  articles  held  by  specu- 
lators, or  those  holding  them  up  lor  higher  prices. 
Signed, 

E.    ^y.    IIUBARD. 

Robert  Gibboney. 
Wm.  B.  Harrison. 


Schedule  B. — Hire  of  Labor,  Teams,  Wagons  and  Drivers. 


1.  Baling  long  forage, 

2.  Shelling  and  bagging  corn,  sacks   fur- 

nished by  the  government,     . 

3.  Hauling,  .  ,  .  . 

4.  Hauling  grain, 

5.  Hire    of    two-horse   team,  wagon  and 

driver,  rations  furnished  by  owner,  . 

6.  Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 

government,     .  .  .  . 

7.  Hir-j   of  four-horse  team,  wagon    and 

driver,  rations  furnished  by  owner,   . 

8.  Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 

government,     .  .  .  . 

9.  Hire   of   six-horse    team,    wagon    and 

driver,  rations  furnished  by  owner,    . 

10.  Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 

government,     .  .  .  . 

11.  Hire  of   laborer,  rations  furnished  by 

owner,  .  .  .  . 

12.  Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 

government,     .  .  .  . 

13.  Hire   of    same,    rations    furnished   by 

owner,  .  .  .  . 

14.  Hire  of  same,  rations  Atrnished  by  the 

government.     .  .  .  . 


Per  100  lbs. 

"       56  " 

"    cwt.  p.mile, 

"     bush     " 

"     day, 


"     month, 


PRICE. 

$ 

30 

05 

06 

03 

10 

00 

5 

00 

13 

00 

6 

50 

16 

00 

8 

00 

2 

00 

1 

25 

40 

00 

20 

00 

Signed, 


E.    W.    HUBARD, 

Robert  Gibboney, 
Wm.  B.  Harrison. 


69 


III.  GEORGIA. 

Schedule  No.  1. — Maximum  Prices  fixed  by  the  Ccmmissioners  for  the 
State  of  Georgia,  for  Produce  and  ./irmy  Supplies  delivered  at  the  usual 
Skipping  Points  on  the  following  named  Rail  Roads,  to  continue  in  force 
until  the  ]5th  of  June,  1863. 


stern, 

;gusta 

West- 

ic, 

d  the 

oad 

es. 

ARTICLES. 

QUAIITY 

DESCRIPTION. 

QUANTITY. 

Macon   and   We 
1    A.  &  "W.  P.  Au 
and  Savannah, 
ern  and  Atlant 
Rome,  Ga.,  an 
Georgia  Rf.il  R 
and  its  branchi 

Muscogee,  Centr: 
vannwh,  Alban; 
Gulf,  Southwest 
and  its  branche 

Wheat, 

Prime, 

"White, 

Per  bush.  CO  lbs. 

j 

! 

Flour, 

Good, 

Superfine, 

Perbbl.  196  lbs. 

!      $3r)  00 

$40  00 

ti 

" 

Less  cost  sacks, 

Per  sack  98  lbs. 

17  fO 

20  00 

Corn, 

Prime, 

Shelled, 

Per  bush.  56  lbs. 

2  25 

1  60 

11 

!     " 

Unshelled, 

Per  bush.  70  lbs. 

2  10 

1  40 

Corn  meal. 

Good, 

— 

Per  bush.  4S  lbs. 

2  40 

1  60 

Hogs, 

Fair, 

Net, 

Per  hundred, 

80  (10 

30  00 

a 

It 

Gross, 

It 

20  00 

20  00 

Bacon, 

Good, 

Sides, 

Per  lb. 

85 

85 

n 

n. 

Hams, 

It 

80 

80 

<i 

il 

Shoulders, 

II 

75 

T5 

>( 

u 

Jowls, 

K 

80 

30 

Pork, 

i( 

Salt, 

11 

60 

60 

Lard, 

II 

— 

It 

75 

75 

Beef, 

Fair, 

Fresh— net. 

11 

25 

18 

u    ' 

Good, 

Salt  or  corned. 

It 

ti 

ti     ' 

Dried, 

II 

60 

40 

(t 

K 

Gross, 

II 

18 

12 

Peas, 

(( 

— 

Per  bush.  60  lbs. 

2  25 

1  50 

Beans, 

It 

— 

ti               11 

Potatoes, 

11 

Irish, 

It               It 

u                ' 

II 

Sweet, 

It               It 

2  60 

1  60 

Onions, 

l< 

— 

It               It 

2  50 

2  60 

Peaches, 

II 

Dried  peeled. 

Per  bush.  8S  lbs. 

6  00 

6  00 

it 

l( 

Dried  unpeeled, 

11               It 

4  00 

4  00 

Apples, 

11 

Dried, 

Per  bush.  28  lbs. 

4  00 

4  00 

Hay, 

" 

Baled, 

Per  100  lbs. 

II 

Uubaled, 

It 

Clover  or 

Timothy, 

(1 

Baled, 

It 

Clover  or 

Timothy, 

II 

Unbaled, 

II 

Sheaf  oats 

II 

Baled, 

11 

"        " 

11 

Unbaled, 

11 

1 

Bl.  fodder, 

II 

Baled, 

ti 

2  50 

2  00 

n            u 

It 

Unbaled, 

It 

1  50 

1  00 

Sugrar, 

II 

Brown, 

Per  lb. 

75 

76 

Molasses, 

l( 

— 

Per  gallon, 

4  60 

4  60 

Rice, 

11 

Old, 

Per  lb. 

10 

10 

t( 

(i 

New, 

It 

12 

12 

Salt, 

<l 

— 

It 

Tullow, 

II 

— 

ti 

76 

60 

"Whiskey, 

It 
11 

By  gov.  contr't, 
AVhen  impre'd, 

Per  gallon, 
«i 

Brandy,     i 

II 

1 

Peach, 

It 

1 

I 

Apple, 

It 

70 

We,  the  Commissioners  appointed  in  accordflnce  with  the  pro- 
visions of  the  Impressment  Act  for  the  State  of  Georjjjia,  after 
mature  and  careful  deliberation,  have  a;j;reed  upon  the  forej^oinjj 
tariff  of  prices,  which  we  think  fully  meets  the  contemphiHon  uf 
the  law  in  fixing  a  just  compensation  for  the  articles  mentioned. 

We  need  not  add  any  thing  to  the  recent  patriotic  addi-ess  of 
our  most  excellent  President  as  to  the  duty  cf  producers  in  this 
crisis.  Blind,  indeed,  must  be  the  judgment,  and  cold  the  pa- 
triotism that  will  not  rally  to  the  support  of  an  army  whosj  glo- 
rious triumphs  have  shed  such  undyin;^  lustre  upon  our  national 
history.  Standing  as  it  does  a  wall  of  brass  between  us  and  our 
malignant  foes,  shall  it  feel  the  pindiings  of  hunger  when  our 
granaries  are  filled  to  overflowing  and  our  broad  fields  are  waving 
with  rich  grain  nearly  ready  for  the  sickle?  The  governnient 
demands  only  your  surplus  supplies,  and  for  them  will  pay  remu- 
nerative prices.  Fortify  the  hearts  of  our  soldiers  then,  by  show- 
ing that  while  they  illustrate' the  chivalry  of  Georgia  upon  the 
tented  field,  we  at  home  are  ready  to  dispense  with  all  superflui- 
ties, relinquish  all  luxuries,  and  make  any  sacrifice  necessary  to 
maintain  and  perpetuate  our  honor  and  our  liberties.  While  we 
may  have  erred  in  our  judgment  as  to  what  is  a  fair  compensa- 
tion for  some  of  the  articles  in  the  above  schedule  of  prices,  we 
feel  that  we  have  stood  impartially  between  the  government  and 
the  producer,  and  while  protecting  one  have  not  lost  sight  of  the 
other.  We  have  omitted  to  annex  prices  to  certain  articles,  either 
on  account  of  their  scarcity,  or  because  the  government  is  fully 
supplied.     At  the  proper  time  prices  will  be  fixed  for  all. 

John  E.  Morgan, 
U.  B.  Wilkinson, 
Commissioners, 
By  order. 

S,  COOPER. 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,]         Adj't  and  Insf'r  Gen'l's  Office, 
No.  66.  J  Riclmcnd,  M.nj  22,  1863. 

I.  The  Act  of  Congress  "  to  provide  and  organize  engineev 
tnops  to  serve  during  the  war,"  approved  March  20,  1863,  and 
the  accompanying  rules  and  regulations  for  the  selection  and  or- 
ganization of  the  same,  are  published  for  the  information  and  di- 
rection of  all  concerned  ; 

"Section  1.  The  Con  greets  of  the  Conjederate  States  of  Ameri- 
ca do  enact,  That  there  shall  be  selected,  in  such  manner  as  the 
Secretary  of  War  may  direct,  from  each  division  of  infantry  in 


ii 

service,  one  company  of  engineer  troops,  to  consist  of  one  hun- 
dred men,  chosen  with  a  view  to  their  mechanical  skill  and  phys- 
ical iitness,  and  that  the  men  assigned  to  such  company  shall  be 
required  to  serve  in  the  same  only  during  the  balance  of  their 
term  of  service  respectively. 

"  Sec.  2.  That  each  company  shall  consist  of  eight  gergeants» 
seven  corporals,  forty  artificers  and  forty-five  laborers,  and  that 
two  musicians  may  be  added. 

**  Sec.  3.  That  the  commisfaioned  oflBcers  of  each  compan  J 
shall  consist  of  one  captain,  one  first  lieutenant  and  two  second 
lieutenants,  and  that  the  original  vacancies  in  these  companies 
shall  be  filled  by  the  transfer  of  officers  of  corresponding  grade 
from  the  engineer  corps,  if  practicable,  and  where  not,  then  from 
the  other  corps,  or  from  tlie  line  or  staflf  of  the  army,  reference 
being  always  had  to  their  qualification  as  engineers,  or  by  selec- 
tion ;  but  no  one  shall  be  selected  who  is  not  now  serving  in  or 
with  the  army,  unless  he  is  a  military  or  civil  engineer. 

"Sec.  4.  Tliat  the  companies  shall  be  organized  into  regi- 
ments of  ten  companies  each,  and  that  the  field  and  stafi"  oflficera 
shall  consist  of  one  colonel,  one  lieutenant  colonel,  one  major, 
one  adjutant  with  the  rank  of  first  lieutenant,  one  quartermaster 
sergeant,  and  one  sergeant  major,  and  that  the  original  vacan- 
cies in  the  regiment  shall  be  filled  in  the  manner  provided  for 
filling  the  same  in  the  companies  by  the  third  section  of  this  act, 
and  that  the  sergeant  major  and  the  quartermaster  sergeant  shall 
be  selected  from  the  enlisted  men  of  the  army. 

"  Sec.  5.  That  in  each  regiment  two  of  the  companies  shall  be 
assigned  to  duty  as  pontoniers,  and  each  be  furnished  with  a 
bridge  train  complete. 

"  Sec.  6.  That  the  officer*  in  charge  of  the  engineer  bureau, 
subject  to  the  approval  of  the  Secretary  of  War,  shall  prescribe 
the  number,  form  and  dimensions  of  the  wagons,  pontoons,  tres- 
tles, tools,  implements,  arms  and  other  necessaries  for  all  the 
troops  organized  by  this  act. 

"  Sec.  7.  That  vacancies  in  the  established  regiments  to  and 
including  the  rank  of  colonel,  shall  bs  filled  by  promotion  regi- 
mentally,  according  to  seniority,  except  in  case  of  disability  or 
other  incompetency. 

"  Sec.  8.  That  the  monthly  pay  of  the  engineer  troops  shall  be 
as  follows:  Of  a  colonel,  two  hundred  and  ten  dollars;  of  a  lieu- 
tenant colonel,  one  hundred  and. eighty  five  dollars  ;  of  a  major, 
one  hundred  and  sixty-two  dollars ;  of  a  captain,  one  hundred 
and  forty  dollars  ;  of  a  first  lieutenant,  one  hundred  dollars;  of  a 
second  lieutenant,  ninety  dollars  ;  and  the  adjutant  shall  receive 
ten  dollars  per  month  in  addition  to  his  pay  as  lieutenant. 

*'  Sec  9.  That  the  pay  of  the  enlisted  men  per  month  shall  be 
as  follows :  The  sergeant  major  and  quartermaster  sergeant,  each 


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twenty-one  dollars ;  sergeants,  thirty-four  dollars ;  corporals, 
twenty  dollars;  artificers,  seventeen  dollars  ;  laborers  and  musi- 
cians, thirteen  dollars. 

"  Sec.  10.  That  mounted  engineer  troops  may  be  selected  from 
the  cavalry,  and  he  organized  according  to  the  provisions  of  this 
act,  for  engineer  troops,  as  herein  before  specified.^' 

II.  The  method  of  selection  and  organization  under  the  fore- 
going act,  shall  be  as  follows  : 

1.  The  senior  engineer  officers  serving  with  the  Commanding 
General  of  a  department,  will  be  authorized  by  him  to  organize 
the  engineer  companies  of  the  command. 

2.  Persons  recommended  by  the  Engineer  Bureau  to  be  ap- 
pointed as  company  officers  to  the  respective  companies  when  or- 
ganized, will  be  directed  to  report  to  the  senior  officer  of  engi- 
neers in  the  department,  who,  aided  by  them  and  subject  to  the 
approval  of  the  Commanding  General,  shall  select  from  specified 
divisions,  in  consultation  with  their  commanders,  the  required 
number  of  men  to  form  the  companies. 

3.  The  selections  shall  be  distributed  as  equally  as  practicable 
among  all  the  companies  of  a  division,  regard  being  had  to  the 
efficiency  of  the  engineer  service.  Preference  shall,  be  given  to 
volunteers  for  this  special  service,  provided  they  possess  the  re- 
quisite qualifications. 

4.  The  non-commissioned  officers  of  each  company  shall  be  se- 
lected, and  the  prirates  classified  into  artificers  and  laborers,  by 
the  person  selected  to  organize  it,  subject  to  the  approval  of  the 
senior  officer  of  engineer  troops,  as  soon  as  appointed. 

5.  The  Chief  of  the  Engineer  Bureau,  after  naming  the  com- 
panies and  designating  to  which  regiment  they  shall  be  assigned, 
will  recommend  to  the  War  Department  the  appointment  of  com- 
pany and  field  officers. 

6.  Two  of  the  companies  of  each  regiment  shall  be  selected  by 
the  senior  field  officer  of  engineer  troops,  subject  to  the  approval 
of  the  Chief  of  the  Engineer  Bureau,  as  companies  of  pontoniers, 
but,  unless  provided  with  bridge  trains,  to  serve  as  the  other 
companies. 

7.  Whenever  the  number  of  non-commissioned  officers  and 
privates  falls  below  sixty  in  any  company,  it  shall  be  recruited  to 
its  maximum  number,  aa  herein  before  specified. 

8.  In  lieu  of  the  usual  return  of  officers  and  hired  men  re- 
quired of  engineer  officers,  returns  of  officers  and  enrolled  men, 
showing  the  present,  absent  and  sick,  shall  be  forwarded  month- 
ly by  the  senior  field  officer  of  each  regiment,  to  the  Chief  of  the 
Engineer  Bureau,  who  will  furnish  blank  forms  for  the  purpose. 

By  order, 

S.  COOPER, 
Aijut<ini  and  Inspector  Ckneral. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,]         Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 
No.  67.  J  Richmond,  May  25,  1863. 

I.  Officers  on  ordnance  duty,  when  temporarily  absent  from 
their  posts  or  positions  in  the  field,  under  special  orders,  shall  be 
allowed  their  personal  expenses,  to  be  paid  out  of  the  appropria- 
tion for  ordnance  service,  in  lieu  of  all  allowances  for  fuel,  quar- 
ters and  forage  for  the  same  period.  Each  account  must  be  cer- 
tified to  by  the  party  receiving  the  payment,  and  approved  by 
the  officer  under  whose  orders  he  acts.  * 

II.  Whenever  a  cavalryman  fails  and  refuses  to  keep  himself 
provided  with  a  serviceable  horse,  he  may,  upon  the  order  of  the 
corps  commander,  be  transferred  to  any  company  of  infantry  or 
artillery  of  the  same  army,  that  he  may  select.  In  lieu  of  such 
s-oldiers,  others  belonging  to  the  infantry  or  artillery,  who  are 
able  to  furnish  horses,  and  prefer  that  service,  may,  in  like  man- 
ner, be  transferred,  in  equal  number,  to  the  cavalry. 

[II.  Surgeons  will  turn  over  money  or  other  effects  of  decefised 
soldiers  (except  clothing,  which  will  be  disposed  of  as  directed  by 
General  Orders,  No.  49,  1863,)  to  the  quartermaster  of  the  regi- 
ment to  which  the  soldier  belonged,  if  he  died  in  the  field,  or  to 
the  quartermaster  of  the  post,  if  he  died  in  hospital,  taking 
therefor  receipts  in  duplicate— one  of  which  will  be  forwarded 
by  him  to  the  commanding  officer  of  the  company  of  which  the 
soldier  was  a  member,  to  be  sent  by  him  to  the  family  of  the  de- 
ceased, and  the  other  to  the  Second  Auditor  of  the  Treasury. 
Quartermasters  will  take  up,  upon  their  quarterly  returns,  money 
thus  paid,  specifying  the  amount  left  by  each  deceased  soldier, 
his  name,  company  and  regiment,  f 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
AdjiUani  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  l  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'i/s  Office, 

No.  68.  J  Richmond,  May  27,  1863. 

I.  At  a  General  Court  Martial,  convened  at  Knoxville,  Tenn  . 
February  20,  1863,  by  virtue  of  General  Urders,  No.  16,  Head 
Quarters  Department  of  East  Tennessee,  of  December  15,  1862, 

*  See  also  General  Orders,  No.  133,  No.  135,  and  No.  157. 
t  See  Par.  L,  Gbneral  Orders,  No.  1*  1894. 

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and  of  which  Col.  J.  J.  Finley,  6th  Ke^iment  Florida  Volunteers, 
■was  President,  was  tried  : 

Captain  J.  Q.  Arnold,  r2th  Battalion  Tennessee  Cavalry,  on 
the  following  Charge  and  Speeifieation  : 

Charge,  -  -  Tiolation  of  the  9th  Article  of  War. 

Specification — In  this,  that  the  paid  John  Q.  Arnold  did  will- 
fully, maliciously  and  feloniously,  and  with  malice  aforethoughty 
kill  and  murder  Mnjor  T.  W.  Adrien,  his  superior  officer,  by 
shooting  him  with  a  pistol  loaded  with  powder  and  ball,  which  he 
then  and  there  held  in  his  hand,  from  which  he,  the  said  T.  W. 
Adrien,  did  die.  This  at  Kingston,  Tenn.,  on  or  about  the  16tb 
<iay  of  November,  1862  : 

To  the  above  Charge  and  Specification  the  accused  filed  a 
special  plea  to  the  jurisdiction  of  the  Court,  which  having  been 
overruled  by  the  Court,  the  plea  of  not  guilty  was  entered. 

II.  Finding  and  Sentence  of  ilie   Court. 

The  Court  having  maturely  congidered  the  case,  do  find  the  ac- 
cused, Capt.  J.  Q.  Arnold,  i2th  Battalion  Tennessee  Cavalry,  as 
follows : 

Of  the  Specification  of  the  Charge, ^  -  -  Guilty, 

Of  the  Charge,  -  ...  Guilty, 

And  do  therefore  (two-thirds  of  the  Court  concumng,)  sen- 
ence  him  to  be  shot  to  death  by  musketry. 

III.  The  proceedings,  findings  and  sentence  in  the  foregoing 
case  having  been  submitted  to  the  President,  the  following  orders 
are  by  his  direction  made  therein : 

Murder  can  only  be  punished  under  the  Articles  of  War,  when 
incident  to  some  other  clearly  defined  offence.  It  dnen  not  of  it- 
self constitute  a  military  crime  ;  and  the  33d  ArticJft  of  War  pro- 
vides, that  when  capital  crimes  are  committed  by  persons  in  the 
military  service,  they  shall  be  turned  over,  on  demand,  to  the 
civil  authorities.  The  9th  Article,  under  which  Capt.  Arnold 
was  tried,  inquires  that  the  officer  against  whom  violence  is  of- 
fered, must  be  *'  in  the  execution  of  his  offiice.''  Hence,  to  take 
the  case  out  of  the  33d  Article,  which  is  general  in  its  applica- 
tion, and  refer  it  to  the  9Lh,  which  ia  special,  the  murder  or  kill- 
ing must  be  set  forth  in  the  specification  in  such  terms  as  to 
show  that  the  Court  has  jurisdiction  :  and  this  can  only  be  done 
by  alleging,  in  the  worda  of  the  Article,  that  the  officer  was  "  in 
the  execiitica  of  his  ofcce.^'    The  otnissinn  cannot  be  iucplied  by 


e'^idence,  even  where  no  objection  is  made;  fur  consent  cannot 
confer  jurisdiction.  In  tho  present  ca^e,  however,  objection  was 
made  to  tho  jurisdiction  of  the  Court  over  the  particular  crime 
alleged,  andthe  point  has  thus  been  distinctly  presented  to  the 
department.  Nor  does  the^viflpuce  show  Major  Adrien  to  have 
been  clearly  "in  the  discharge  of  his  ofBce"  at  the  time  of  the 
killing.  On  the  contrary,  it  is  stated  that  he  was  "  walkinj>; 
across  the  street/'  To  be  in  tho  execution  of  his  office,  the  odicer 
must  bo  in  tho  actual  discharge  of  some  d«ty.  It  is  resistance 
to  authority  under  such  circumstances,  that  tho  9th  Article  for- 
bids and  punishes.  Other  offences — such  as  disobedience,  disre^ 
apect,  inuHuij — are  made  punishable  by  other  Articles  ;  and  tho 
9th  Articlo  seems  designed  to  protect  officers  in  the  enforcement 
of  discipline,  and  against  resistance  while  in  the  execution  of 
that  duty.  The  department  can  only  deal  with  offences  jvhen 
they  are  properly  presented  through  the  established  forma  of  tho 
Bervioc. 

The  proceeding's,  findings  and  sentence  in  this  case  must  beset 
aside,  for  tho  reasons  stated  ;  but  it  is  supposed  that  any  respon- 
sibility that  the  party  has  incurred  to   the  civil  authorifcios  of 
Tennessee,  is  not  atfectod  by  this  proceeding. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,]        -    Adj't  A^'D  Insp'r  Gen'i/s  Office, 

No.  69.  j  ■  RiGhmond,  May  28,  1863. 

I.  In  places  where  there  are  three  or  more  hospitals,  three  sur- 
geons in  charge  of  Jiospitals,  or  divisions  in  hospitals,  shall  con^ 
stitute  a  Board  of  Examiners  for  the  hospitals  to  which  they  be- 
long, whose  duty  it  shall  be,  twice  in  each  week,  to  visit  paid 
hospitals,  and  examine  applicants  for  furloughs;  and  in  all  cases 
where  they  shall  find  an  applicant  unfit  for  military  duty,  either 
from  disease  or  wounds,  and  likely  so  to  remain  for  thirty  days 
or  upwards,  they  shall,  provided  his  life  or  convalesence  will  not, 
in  their  opinion,  be  endangered  thereby,  grant  a  furlough  for 
such  time,  not  to  exceed  sixty  days,  as  they  shall  deem  he  will 
be  unfit  for  duty. 

II.  There  will  be  detailed  for  each  board  herein  constituted, 
from  one  of  the  hospitals  visited  by  them,  a  competent  clerk,  who 
will  issue  furloughs,  to  be  signed  by  the  senior  member  of  tire 
board;  which  will  specify  therein  the  length  of  furlough,  tho 
place  of  residence  of  tho  soldier,  his  company,  regiment  and  bri« 


gade  ;  and  no  further  formality  shall  be  required  of  the  soldier, 
and  no  passport  other  than  his  furlough. 

Ill  Iq  every  case  furloughed  under  the  previsions  of  this  or- 
.  der,  a  medical  certificate,  stating  the  name,  company',  regiment 
and  brigade  of  the  soldier,  his  place  of  residence,  and  the  length 
of  furlough,  with  the  full  particulars  of  the  disease,  wound  or 
disability,  and  the  period  during  which  ho  has  suffered  from  its 
effects,  with  an  opinion  of  the  time  which  will  elapse  before  h% 
can  resume  duty,  must  be  furnished  by  the  Board  of  Examiners 
to  the  Surgeon  General ;  and  if  such  furlough  has  been  impro- 
perly,granted,  the  derelict  officer  will  be  held  responsible  before 
a  military  tribunal.  ^ 

IV.  The  board  aforementioned  will  also  examine  applicants 
for  discharge  from  the  service,  in  hospitals  visited  by  them,  and 
may  recommend  a  discharge  when  a  soidier  is  deemed  perma- 
nently unfit  for  service  in  the  field  or^in  any  department  of  the 
army,  in  consequence  of  wounds,  disease  or  infirmity;  in  which 
case,  certificates  of  disability,  signed  by  the  sinior  member  of  the 
board,  and  approved  by  the  General  commanding  the  army  or 
department  to  which  the  soldier  belongs,  or  by  the  Surgeon  Gen- 
eral, will  entitle  him  to  a  discharge,  to  be  granted  by  the  com- 
mandant of  the  post,  who  will  complete  and  forward  the  "  certi- 
ficates of  disability  ^'  to  the  Adjutant  ond  Inspector  General's 
office.  The  surgeon  in  charge  of  the  hospital  will  make  out 
*' final  statements."  The  soldier  will  receive  transportation  to 
the  place  of  his  enlistment  or  residence. 

V.  In  places  where  there  are  but  two  hospitals,  two  surgeons 
in  charge  of  a  hospital  or  division  shall  constitute  a  board  fc? 
the  purposes  aforesaid ;  and  in  places  where  there  is  but  one 
hospital,  the  surgeon  in  charge  and  two  assistant  surgeons,  if 
there  be  two,  and  if  not,  then  one,  shall  constitute  a  board  for  the 
purpose  aforesaid,  and  may  furlough,  and  recommend  discharges 
as  herein  prescribed. 

VI.  Where  a  soldier  has  been  discharged  under  the  provisions 
of  this  order,  and  his  "descriptive  \ht"  and  "final  statements'' 
cannot  be  procured,  he  will  be  mustered  by  the  surgeon  in  charge 
on  the  hospital  rolls,  for  payment,  upon  his  affidav.!:,  ul  en  be- 
fore one  or  more  witnesses,  that  he  has  not  recei  -. -:  p:iy  for  the 
period  for  which  he  claims  it  to  be  due,  and  that  he  is  not  in- 
debted to  the  Confederate  States  beyond  the  amount  stated  by 
him. 

VII.  Notices  of  all  furloughs  issued  under  there  orders  will  be 
forwarded  weekly  by  the  Board  of  Examiners,  tr  d  notices  of  all 
discharges  from  eervice,  by  commandants  of  y.his,  to  the  imme- 


diate  commander  r>f  ihe  company  ict  vthicli  the  soldier  belongs, 
and  to  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 

VIII.  The  house  surgeon  in  all  hospitals  shall  see  each  pa 
tient  under  his  charg^^  once  every  day. 

IX.  Paragraph  III,  IV  and  V,  General  Orders,  No.  51,  current 
series,  from  this  office,  pertaining  to  matters  herein  regulated,  are 
rescinded. 

X.  Boards  of  examiners  and  post  commandants  have  no  power 
to  grant  an  officer  leave  of  absence.  They  can  only  recommend 
it,  upon  the  usual  surgeon's  certificate,  for  the  consideration  of 
the  commanding  officer  of  the  army  or  department  to  which  the 
oflicer  belongs.  * 


By  order. 


S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,   ]        Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'i/s  Office 
No.  70.  j  Richmond,  May  29,  1863. 

I.  The  following  Act  of  Congress,  and  Regulations  adopted  by 
the  Department  in  pursuance  thereof,  are  published  for  the  infor- 
mation of  all  concerned : 

An  Act  to  abolish  Supernumerary  Officers  in  the  Commissary  and 
Quartermaster's  Departments. 

'*  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact. 
That  the  office  of  regimental  commissary  be  and  the  same  is 
hereby  abolished,  and  the  duties  heretofore  devolved  by  law  upon 
said  commissary  shall  be  performed  by  the  regimental  quarter- 
master: j)rovid(.d,  th-dt  said  quartermaster  shall,  if  required  by 
the  Secretary  of  War,  execute  a  new  bond,  with  such  additional 
penalty  as  he  may  require. 

**  Sec.  2.  That  the  commanding  officer  of  a  regiment  or  batta- 
lion shall,  when  the  good  of  the  service  in  his  opinion  requires 
it,  detail  a  non-commissioned  officer  or  private  as  commissary 
sergeant,  who  shall  be  assigned  to  the  regimental  quartermaster 
to  perform  the  duties  now  performed  by  commissary  sergeants  ; 
and  the  non  commissioned  ufiicer  or  private  so  detailed  shall  re- 
ceive, as  extra  pay,  twenty  dollars  ptu-  month. 

"  Sec.  3.  That  the  regimental  quartermasters  acting  as  cora- 

•  Amended  by  Par.  III.  General  OiJer.*,  No.  00. 


misparies,  shall  draw  supplies  for  thrir  respective  regiments  on 
Provision  R<-:*"'iriis,  Form  14,  aiv^  uot  in  bulk  ;  and  wlien  detacb.- 
ed  from  their  I  rigades,  feo  that  it  is  impracticaVjle  to  draw  sup- 
plies from  the  brigade  commissary,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
nearest  brigade  or  post  commissary  to  supply  his  regiment  on 
Provision  Return  14. 

"  Sec.  4.  Sales  to  officers  shall  be  made  by  the  brigade  com« 
missaries  to  which  such  officers  nre  attached. 

"  Sec.  5.  That  quarrermaeters  and  commissaries,  assistant  quar- 
termasters and  assistant  commisearies,  who  become  permanently 
detached  fiom  divisions,  brigades  or  regiments  to  which  they  are 
originally  aftpointed  and  assigned,  respectively,  v,hcthcr  by  resig- 
nation o"'"  otherwise,  shall  cense  to  be  officers  of  the  army,  and 
their  names  shall  be  dropped  from  the  rolls  of  the  army,  unless 
reassigned  by  a  special  order  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

"  Sec.  6.  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Secretary  of  War  to 
issue  the  necessary  orders  for  the  earliest  practicable  enforce-' 
ment  of  the  provisions  of  this  law;  and  that  he  shall  comnumi- 
cate  to  the  chiefs  of  the  subsistence  and  quartermaster's  bureaus 
the  n9n>es  of  the  commissaries  and  assistant  commissaries,  quar- 
termasters- and  assistant  quartermasters  retained  and  dropped 
from  the  rolls  under  this  act. 

"  Sec.  7.  That  all  laws  and  parts  of  laws  contravening  the  pro- 
visions of  this  act,  be  and  the  same  are  hereby  repealed."  [Ap^" 
proved  May  1, 1863.] 

il.     Regulations. 

1.  After  this  date  no  appointment  will  be  made  of  regimental 
or  battalion  commissaries  in  the  provisional  army.  Departmental 
commanders  will  direct  the  transfer,  by  regimental  commissaries, 
of  all  money,  effects  and  property  in  their  hands  to  the  proper 
regimental  quartermasters,  who  will  thereafter  discharge  the 
duties  of  the  former,  in  accord:vnce  with  the  provisions  of  this 
act.  Until  such  transfer  is  peifeeted,  regimental  commissaries 
will  continue  in  the  performance  of  their  usual  duties  ;  but  after 
the  31st  day  of  July  nest  all  quartermasters  and  commissaries, 
assistant  quartermasters  and  assistant  ooramissaries,  who  havo 
not  been  or  may  not  be,  prior  to  July  SIst,  specially  detailed  or 
assigned  to  duty,  will  cease  to  bo  officers  in  the  Confederate  ser- 
Tice, 

2.  Sales  to  officers  will,  after  the  Blsfc  of  July  nest,  be  made 
by  the  brigade  commissaiy,  as  required  in  the  4th  section  ( f  the 
act;  and  to  enable  him  to  do  so,  the  brigade  commander  will 
eelect  and  report  to  the  War  Department,  through  the  usual 
chnnnel,  the  best  qualified  regimental  commissary  of  his  brigade, 
for  afisignmeut  to  duty  with  the  brigade  commissary.  It  shall  be 
the  fip0ei;il  dnty  of  thecommisiary  thus  n?signed,  to  receive  gujv 


e 

p]ie3  in  bulk,  and  to  make  the  usually  required  sa'es  to  officers  o* 
the  army.  He  will  be  under  the  immediate  direction  of  the  bri' 
gade  commissary  ;  will  receipt  to  him  lor  all  jiropertj  received* 
and  make  through  him  the  proper  reports  and  returns  of  his 
transactions. 

3.  In  cavalry  refriments,  a  lieutenant  of  cavalry  or  other  com- 
petent officer  may  be  detailed,  when  necessary,  to  aid  the  re^x- 
mental  quartermaster  in  the  diHcharp:^  of  such  additional  duties 
as  may  be  devolved  upon  him  under  the  operation  of  this  law. 

4.  Additional  bonds  will  not  be  required  of  regimental  quar- 
termasters charged  with  commissary  duties,  except  where  directed 
bv  the  Secretary  of  AVar. 


By  order,  . 


S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  "j  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  71.  J  lUchnond,  May  30,  1863. 

The  following  Act  of  Congress  having  been  approved  by  the 
President,  is  announced  for  the  information  and  guidance  of  all 
concerned : 

An  Act  allowing  Hospital  Accommodations  to  Sieh  and  Wounded 

Officers. 

"  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enacts 
That  sick  or  v»'Ounded  officers  shall  be  allowed  hospital  accommo- 
dations in  any  of  the  hospitals  of  the  Confederate  States,  at  ono 
dollar  per  diem. 

"  Sec.  2.  And  he  it  further  enacted,  When  said  offioer  shall  be 
without  money,  he  shall  nevertheless  be  entitled  to  the  same. 
The  Surjieon  in  charge,  at  the  expiration  of  every  thirty  days, 
shall  state  the  acconnt,  and  be  entitled  to  draw  the  amount  at 
any  place  where  the  officer  might  have  drawn  it,  which  shall  be 
deducted  from  said  officer's  pay,  in  the  same  way  as  if  he  himself 
had  drawn  it  ;  and  any  officer  drawing  the  same  ngain,  shall  be 
punished  as  in  the  ca^o  of  fraudulent  drawers."  [Approved 
April  29,  18G3.] 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  Gc?iCraL 


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GENERAL  ORDERS,  j         Adjt  and  Lnsp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

^""o- 72.  j  rdcJimond,  June  1 J  lS6i. 

^  I.  At  the  Military  Court  held  for  the  Army  Corps  of  Major 
General  Samuel  Jones,  at  Gray  Sulphur  Springs,  Virginia,  May 
5bh,  1863,  was  arraigned  and  tried: 

Captain  Wm.  S.  Rowan,  Company  A,  60th  Ya.  Volunteers,  on 
tlie  following  Charges — (the  Specifications  being  numerous  and 
lengthy,  are  omitted  in  this  order)  : 

Charge  ist,  -        -        Violation  of  the  83d    Article  of  War. 

C/mrge  2d,  -        -        Violation  of  the  99th  Article  of  Vv'ar. 

II.     Finding  and  Sentence  of  the  Court. 
Having  maturely  considered   the  evidence  adduced,  the  Court 
find  the  accused,  Capt.  Wm.  S.   Rowon,   Company  A,  60th  Va. 
Volunteers : 

Of  the  1  fit  Charge,        .....        Guilty^ 
Of  the  2d  Charge,         .....         Guilty 

And  do,  therefore,  sentence  him  to  be  dismissed  the  service  of 
the  Confederate  States.  • 

III.  The  proceedings,  finding  and  sentence  in  the  foregoing 
case  have  been  submitted  to  the  Secretary  of  War,  to  be  laid 
before  the  President—and  the  following  orders  are  now  made 
thereon  : 

The  charges  are  l^oth  too  defective  to  sustain  a  trial.  Neither 
the  83d  nor  the  99th  Article  of  War,  defines  any  ofi'ence  what- 
ever, nor  di)  they  direct  the  performance  of  any  duty.  No  viola- 
tion of  either  of  those  articles  can  properly  be  charged. 

Under  tiie  83d  Article,  the  only  charge  to  be  preferred  is  "  con- 
duct  unbecoming  an  officer  and  gentleman  ;^^  and  under  the  99th, 
"  conduct  to  the  j^rejudice  of  good  order  and  military  discipline." 
The  specifications  would  then  have  been  responsive  to  the  charges, 
and  would  have  sustained  a  trial  and  seLtenec  in  accordance  with 
the  evidence. 

IV.  For  the  reasons  above  assigned,  the  proceedings  must  be 
set  aside ;  and  Capt.  Rowan  will  be  released  from  arrest  and  re- 
stored to  duty.  .  The  record  discloses  facts  very  disgraceful  to 
liim  ;  but  it  is  hoped  that  his  accidental  escape  from  deserved 
punishment  may  result  in  a  determination  to  retrieve  his  charac- 
ter as  a  citizen  and  officer  of  the  army. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General, 


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GENERAL  ORDERS,  ]  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  73.  ]  Richmond,  June  2,  1863. 

I.  At  the  Military  Court  held  for  the  Army  of  Lt.  Gen.  Polk, 
at  Shelbyville,  Tenn.,  April  14th,  1863,  was  tried  : 

Capt.  W.  W.  W.  Wood,  Company  L,  Blythe'a  Regiment  of  Miss. 
Volunteers,  on  the  following  charge  and  specifications  .r 

Charge,        -         Conduct  unbecoming  an  ofiicer  and  gentleman. 

Spe€iJications:—The  Ist  and  3d  are  omitted.  The  2d  is  at*  fol" 
Iowa : 

Specification  2-  In  this,  that  the  said  Capt.  W.  W.  W.  Wood, 
Company  L,  Blythe's  Miss.  Regiment  (f  Volunteern,  remained  in 
camp  four  days  preceding  and  during  the  battle  of  Murfreesboro', 
but  came  to  his  company  the  day  after  said  battle,  to  wit,  Janu- 
ary 1,  1863,  and  took  command  of  histompany  until  a  part  of  the 
regiment,  his  company  included,  was  ordered  forward  to  support 
the  sharp  shooters  who  were  in  front  of  the  line  of  battle,  when 
said  Capt.  W.  W.  W.  Wood,  Company  L,  Blythe's  Miss.  Regi- 
ment, made  a  pretext  to  Lieut.  O'llea  of  h\$  company  for  momen- 
tarily leaving  his  pls*-^.  He  the  said  Capt.  W.  W  W.  Wood, 
Company  L,  Blythe's  Regiment,  returned  to  his  company  no  more, 
but  reported  to  Doct.  X.  Xaupi,  surgeon  of  said  rey;iment,  who 
refused  to  excuse  him.  Nevertheless,  said  Capt.  AV.  W.  W.  Wood, 
Company  L,  Blythe's  Miss.  Regiment  of  Volunteers,  went  back 
to  camp,  and  remained  there  till  forced  out  on  the  following  morn- 
ing.    AH  this  near  Murfreesboro^  Teun.,  January  1,  18C3. 

II.  Finding  and  Sentence. 

The  majority  of  the  Court  find  the  accused,  Capt.  W.  W.  W 
Wood,  Company  L.  Blythe's  Miss.  Regiment,  as  follows : 

Of  Specification  1st,    .         ...        -         -        Not  Guilty. 

Of  so  much  of  that  part  of  Specification  2d,  which 
charges  him  with  two  days  remaining  away  from 
his  company  at  camp,        .....  Guilty. 

The  whole  Court  lind  him  of  the  remainder  of  Spe- 
cification 2d,     -        -        ...        .        .        -         Not  Guilty. 

The  whole   Court   honorably  acquit  him  of  the  3d 

Specification,  and  say,      .....         Not  Guilty. 

The  majority  of  the  Court  find  him  of  the  Ciiarge,  Guilty, 

and  seutenco  him  to  be  dismissed  the  service. 


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III.  The  proceedings  in  the  foregoing  case  have  been  submitted 
to  the  Secretary  of  War,  to  be  laid  before  the  President — and  the 
following  orders  are  now  made  thereon  : 

Capt.  Wood  was  tried  on  the  single  charge  of  "  conduct  unbe- 
coming an  officer  and  gentleman,"  under  w^hich  tliree  specifica- 
tions were  laid.  The  whole  Court  acquit  him  of  the  3d  specifi- 
cation, A  majority  acquit  him  of  the  1st  and  part  of  the  2d 
specification,  but  find  him  guilty  of  the  remainder  of  the  2d  spe- 
cification, and  gui.Ity  of  the  charge.  A  portion  of  the  2d  specifi- 
cation is,  therefore,  all  that  in  the  opinion  of  the  Court  sustains 
the  charge.  But  this  finding  is  altogether  too  imperfect  and 
uncertain.  If  the  2d  specification  refers  to  separate  and  distinct 
ofi'ences,  it  is  wholly  defective,  and  should  have  been  set  aside 
before  the  trial  :  but  if  it  embraces  a  single  substantive  offence, 
the  Court  cannot  separate  its  parts,  and  find  the  accused  guilty 
as  to  one  portion  and  not  guilty  as  to  another,  unless  it  is  clear 
that  the  facts  thus  separated  and  established,  of  thtmselves  consti- 
tute the  particular  offence  charged.  But  this  is  far  from  being 
clear.  The  looseness  and  uncertainty  of  the  2d  specification,  and 
the  finding  thereon,  are  a  sufficient  and  fatal  objection.  The 
•whole  finding  is  moreover  informal  and  irregular.  The  judges 
give  lengthy  and  separate  opinions  in  connection  with  it,  and 
represent  one  part  of  their  finding  to  be  by  a  majority,  and  the 
remainder  by  the  whole  Court.  It  is  never  desirable  to  state  by 
what  vote  the  Court  has  arrived  at  its  copclusions,  and  it  is  con- 
trary to  the  practice  of  Courts  Martial  tB  -Jo  so.  Upon  the  whole, 
the  proceedings  are  set  aside,  and  Capt.  Wood  will  therefore  be 
released  from  arrest  and  returned  to  duty. 

By  order.  : . 

\  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  ^  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  74.  )  Richmond,  June  3,  1863. 

I.  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States,  having  failed  to 
recognize  the  appointment  of  provost  marshals  from  persons  not 
belonging  to  the  army,  or  to  make  appropriation  for  the  services 
of  those  persons  who  had  been  employed  in  that  capacity,  here- 
after no  such  appointments  will  be  made. 

II.  The  Generals  of  departments  will  report  the  posts  at  which 
provost  marshals  are  needed,  with  the  number  of  provost  or  other 
guards  at  the  same,  and  recommend  for  appointment  suitable 
oflBlccrs  for  the  same. 


III.  In  all  cases  preference  will  be  given  to  competent  officers 
who  have  become  disabled,  by  wounds  or  other  infirmity,  for  ac- 
tive field  duty. 

IV.  At  all  the  posts  not  supplied  before  the  1st  of  July  with 
provost  marshals  belonging  to  the  army,  in  accordance  with  this 
order,  the  ofiice  will  be  considered  as  abolished. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Affjitiani  and  Insipecior  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  ]  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  75.  ]  Riclimondt  June  4,  18G3. 

1.  The  following  Act  of  Congress  concerning  compensation  to 
detailed  men,  and  the  instructions  of  the  War  Department  in  re- 
gard thereto,  arc  published  for  the  information  and  direction  of 
all  concerned : 

"  1.  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  eut 
act,  that  non-commissioned  otllcers,  musicians  or  privates,  when 
employed  on  detached  or  detailed  service  by  the  department  or 
other  commander  of  a  district,  or  under  the  direction  of  any  of 
the  military  bureaux,  instead  of  the  compensation  now  allowed, 
may  be  allov/ed  the  sum  of  not  more  tluin  three  dollars  per  day, 
in  lieu  of  rations  and  all  other  allowances,  upon  the  recommen- 
dation of  the  officer  immediately  in  charge  of  such  men,  with  the 
approval  of  the  commander  or  other  chief  of  bureau,  us  the  case 
may  be,  and  the  sanction  of  the  Secretary  of  War. 

"2.  This  act  shall  remain  in  force  for  one  year  from  the  first 
day  of  January,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-three.'^ 

(Approved  May  1st,  18G3.| 

II. — 1.  Detailed  men  in  the  service  of  the  several  military  bu- 
reaux, other  than  the  clerks  described  in  act  No.  52  (clerks  em- 
ployed in  public  oflfices  in  the  city  of  Richmond,  by  reason  of 
physical  disability,)  will  bo  allowed  such  sum  rer  day  in  lieu  of 
rations  and  all  other  allowances,  not  exceeding  three  dollars,  as 
may  be  recommended  by  the  officer  in  charge  of  such  detailed 
men,  and  approved  hy  the  chief  of  bureau. 

2.  The  maximum  allowance  of  three  dollars  will  be  paid  only 
to  the  class  of  detailed  men  serving  at  posts  or  stations  without 
troops,  or  in  counties  and  towns,  or  government  work  shops. 

3.  The  rate  of  allowance  to  men  serving  in  the  field  as  clerks 
at  her.d  quarters,  or  on  duty  in  the  quartermaster's,  ordnance, 


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enp;ineer,  commissary  or  medical,  raining  and  nitre  departments, 
■will  be  established  at  such  sums  per  diem  as  maybe  recommend- 
ed by  the  officer  in  charge  of  such  men,  and  approved  by  the 
Commanding  General.  These  rates  will  not  exceed  $1  25  per 
diem,  except  in  special  cases  of  service  in  the  departments  above 
mentioned,  when  a  greater  rate  may  be  authorized  by  the  chiefs 
of  bureaux,  upon  the  approval  of  the  Commanding  General. 

4.  The  extra  compensation  allowed  by  the  foregoing  act  will 
be  paid  to  detailed  men  by  the  departments  in  which  they  are  re- 
spectively employed,  except  medical  departments,  upon  such  rolls 
as  may  be  prescribed  ;  except  that  payments  by  the  quartermas- 
ter's department  will  be  made  upon  rolls  according  to  Form  No. 
3,  Regulations  of  the  Quartermaster's  Department.  Such  pay- 
ments will  be  in  full  of  all  payments  and  allowances  heretofore 
paid -and  allowed  to  soldiers,  except  their  monthly  pay.  Payments 
in  the  medical  department  will  be  made  as  now,  by  quartermas- 
ters. 

5.  Shoemakers  detailed  under  the  provisions  of  the  act  of  Oc- 
tober 9th,  18G2,  who  may  receive  the  per  diem  allowance,  in  lieu 
of  rations  and  other  allowances  authorized  by  the  act  of  May  1st, 
1863,  will  also  be  entitled  to  the  compensation  of  thirty-five  cents 
per  pair  for  shoes  manufactured  by  them,  authorized  by  the  said 
act  of  October  9,  1862. 

6.  All  payments  to  detailed  men  under  the  act  of  May  1st, 
1863,  will  i)e  niade  from  the  first  day  of  January,  1863,  and  will 
not  be  continued  beyond  the  31st  of  December,  1863  ;  but  no 
payment  shall  be  made  to  those  .who  have  been  detailed  hereto- 
fore, "  without  p-ay  and  allowance  as  soldiers."  From  and  after 
31st  May  payments  to  such  men  will  be  made  under  this  act. 

7.  The  approval  of  the  chiefs  of  bureaux  and  the  sanction  of 
the  Secretary  of  War,  required  by  the  above  recited  act  of  Con- 
gress, will  not  be  necessary  in  each  particular  case  of  detail ;  but 
each  bureau  may,  with  the  approval  of  the  Secretary  of  War, 
prescrilie  general  regulations  for  the  payment  of  the  difi'erent 
classes  of  detailed  men  in  their  respective  employments. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  )  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

Xo.  76.  )  Richmond^  June  5,  1863. 

Officers  of  the  army  are  directed  in  all  ofiicial  reports,  whether 
of  sieges,  campaigr.s  or  battles,  to  confine  their  statements  to  the 
facta  and  event*;  acnneDtsd  with  the  matter  on  which  they  report 


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No  extraneous  subject,  whether  of  speculation  or  of  collateral 
narrative,  has  a  proper  place  in  the  official  reports  of  military 
operations.  As  much  conciseness  as  is  consistent  with  perspicui- 
ty and  fullness  of  statement,  will  be  observed  in  such  communi- 
cations. 


By  order. 


S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  "j         Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  77.  J  Richmond,  June  6,  1863. 

When  an  infantry  soldier  is  detailed  as  a  courier,  under  para- 
graph III,  General  Orders,  No.  7,  current  series,  and  shall  keep 
himself  provided  with  a  serviceable  horse,  he  will  be  allowed 
forty  cents  per  day  for  the  use  and  risk  of  his  horse. 
By  order,  , 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  ^        Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No,  78.  ]  Richmond,  June  7,  1863. 

I.  At  a  General  Court  Martial,  convened  at  the  Camp  of  Major 
General  Anderson's  Division,  by  virtue  of  General  Orders,  No. 
133,  of  1862,  from  Head  Quarters  of  Department  of  Northern 
Virginia,  was  arraigned  and  tried  : 

Private  Allen  Matthews,  Company  E,  6th  Regiment  of  Vit. 
Infantry,  on  the  following  charge,  viz  : 

Charge,        -----        Desertion. 

Specification— In  this,  that  the  said  Private  Allen  Matthews,^ 
Company  E,  6th  Ya.  Regiment,  did,  on  or  about  the  10th  day  of 
May,  18(32,  near  Petersburg,  Va.,  absent  himself  from  his  com- 
pany and  regiment  vrithout  leave,  and  did  remain  absent  till  ar- 
rested and  sent  to  his  regiment,  then  near  Fredericksburg,  Va., 
on  or  about  the  iSth  day  of  February,  1863. 

Finding, 

Of  the  Specification,     ...  -  -      Guilty. 

Of  the  Chargo,  .....      Guilty. 


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Sentence. 

To  be  shot  to  death  with  musketry,  at  such  time  and  place  as 
the  Commanding  General  may  direct. 

II.  The  proceedings,  finding  and  sentence  in  the  foregoing 
case  having  been  laid  before  the  Secretary  of  War,  for  the  order 
of  the  President,  are  approved.  But  for  the  considerations  stated 
in  the  earnest  appeal  of  the  captain  of  his  company,  the  sen- 
tence is  remitted,  in  the  hope  that  his  future  conduct  will  prove 
that  the  clemency  extended  to  him  was  not  misplaced,  and  that 
Lis  life,  justly  forfeited  by  his  grave  oflence,  will  be  hereafter 
used  to  redeem  his  name  from  its  present  reproach. 

Private  Matthews  will  be  released  and  returned  to  duty. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjuiant  arid  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,]  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  79.  ]  Richmond,  June  9,  1863. 

I.  At  a  General  Court  Martial,  convened  at  the  Camp  of  Major 
General  R.  H.  Anderson,  by  virtue  of  General  Orders,  No.  133, 
par.  II,  of  1862,  from  Head  Quarters  Army  of  Northern  Virginia, 
was  arraigned  and  tried: 

Private  George  Mormon,  Company  C,  8th  Ala.  Regiment,  on 
the  following  charges  : 

Charge  1,        -        -        -      Violation  of  the  52d  Article  of  War* 

Specijicaiion — In  this,  that  the  said  Private  George  Mormon* 
Company  C,  8th  Ala.  Regiment,  did  leave  his  company  and  regi- 
ment, while  in  line  of  battle  at  the  battle  of  Seven  Pines,  June 
1st,  1862,  without  proper  authority,  thereby  allowing  himself  to 
be  taken  prisoner  by  the  enemy  on  the  2d  day  of  June,  1862. 

Charge  2,        -        -        -     Violation  of  the  22d  Article  of  War* 

Specification — In  this,  that  the  said  Private  George  Mormon' 
Company  C,  8th  Ala.  Regiment,  did  loave  the  camp  or  hospital* 
while  a  paroled  prisoner  at  Richmond,  Va.,  before  being  ex* 
changed,  about  August  15th,  1862,  and  enlisted  in  the  marine 
corps  at  Mobile,  Ala.,  under  an  assumed  name  ;  and  drew  there- 
from bounty,  clothing,  &c.,  to  the  amount  of  one  hundred  and 
forty-nine  dollars  and  fifty  cents  ;  and  did  not  return  to  his  com- 
pany till  arrested  by  Lieut.  W.  11.  Dunn,  Company  II,  8th  Ala. 
Regiraeut,  about  the  10th  day  of  January,  1883. 


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Finding. 

Of  the  Specification  of  1st  Charge,     -        -        -  •      -  Guilty. 

Of  the  1st  Charge, Guilty. 

Of  the  Specification  of  2d  Charge,      .         -         -         -  Guilty. 

Of  the  td  Charge, -  Guilty. 

Sentence. 

To  forfeit  all  pay  due  to  him,  and  to  be  shot  to  death  with 
musketry,  at  such  time  and  place  as  the  Commanding  General 
may  direct. 

ir.  The  proceedings  in  the  above  case  having  been  laid  before 
the  Secretary  of  War,  for  the  orders  of  the  President,  are  ap- 
proved ;  and  so  much  of  the  sentence  as  requires  the  accused  to 
be  shot  to  death  with  musketry  is  remitted,  in  consideration  of 
the  earnest  recommendation  of  the  members  of  his  regiment, 
and  their  assurance  that  a  reform  in  his  character  as  a  soldier 
may  be  confidently  relied  on. 

III.  Private  Mormon  will  be  returned  to  his  regiment. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  )         Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office' 
No.  80.  )  Richmond,  June  10,  \%^Z, 

I.  Contractors  with  government  officers  to  supply  paper,  are 
hereby  authorized  to  send  agents  to  the  armies  in  the  field,  and 
to  military  posts,  for  the  purpose  of  collecting  material  converti- 
ble into  paper. 

II.  Commanding  officers  of  armie-s  and  military  departments 
will  direct  suitable  facilities  to  be  given  to  such  agents,  when 
coming  certified  by  the  ofiicers  with  wIkjui  the  contract  is  made,  and 
will  direct  the  quartermaster's  department  to  furnish  transporta- 
tion to  the  nearest  public  route,  for  all  materials  collected,  when- 
ever consistent  with  the  interest  of  the  service. 

III.  Non-commissioned  ofiioers  and  privates,  who  belonged  to 
companies  or  regiments  which  have  been  disbanded,  and  wbo,  on 
account  of  their  absence  on  det;ii!ed  duty,  were  not  mustered 
out  of  service  with  tiie  commanils  to  which  they  were  atia^iied, 
but  were  continued  for  detailed  duty,  will  be  paid  for  the  period 
of  such  detail,  upon  descriptive  lists  prepared  and  signed  by  the 


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officer  under  whom  they  may  be  serving.  Clothing  will  be  drawn 
and  issued  to  them  by  such  officer,  who  will  keep  an  accurate 
account  of  su.''h  issues,  and  endorse  them  upon  said  descriptive 
lists.  All  such  non-commissioned  officers  and  soldiers  within  the 
conscript  age,  will  be  at  once  reported  to  the  nearest  ^rolling 
officer,  who  will  take  measures  to  assign  them  to  companies. 
Those  who  are  not  liable  to  service  as  conscripts,  will  be  dis- 
charged by  order  from  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector  General's 
office. 

IV.  In  all  elections  of  officers  prescribed  by  law,  a  majority  of 
all  the  votes  cast  will  be  necessary  to  a  choice. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  i        Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  81.  )  Richmond,  June  11,  1863. 

T.  A  Court  of  Enquiry  having  been  convened,  by  direction  of 
the  President,  on  the  application  of  Lieut.  Colonel  Eugene  E. 
McLean,  Assistant  Quartermaster  General,  under  Special  orders, 
No.  282,  paragraph  XV,  of  1862,  "  to  examine  into  and  report 
upon  the  conduct  of  the  quartermaster's  department  of  the  Army 
of  the  Mississippi,  whilst  under  the  control  of  Lieut  Colonel, 
then  Major  McLean  ;"  and  having  made  the  required  examina- 
tion and  report,  the  result  is,  by  direction  of  the  President,  pub- 
lished for  the  information  of  all  concerned. 

II.  ,The  Court  having  maturely  considered  the  evidence  ad- 
duced, report,  as  the 

SUMMARY    OF    FACTS 

Regarded  by  the  Court  of  Enquiry  in  the  case  of  Lieut.  Colonel 
E.  E   NcLean,  as  proved  by  the  evidence  elicited,  and  of  record  : 

1.  That  the  Army  of  the  Mississippi,  as  commanded  by  Gen- 
eral Braxton  Bragg,  was  an  organization  separate  and  distinct 
from  the  Army  of  the  West,  commanded  by  Major  General  Earl 
Van  Dorn — both  these  armies,  when  concentrated  at  Corinth  and 
Tupelo,  being  under  General  Beauregard,  as  commander  of  the 
forces. 

2.  That  the  Army  of  the  Mississippi  was  composed  of  three 
army  corps,  commanded  respectively  by  Generals  Bragg,  Polk 
and  Hardee,  and  of  a  Reserve  Corps  commanded  by  General 
Breckinridge. 

3.  That  the  evacuation  of  Corinth  by  the  Confederate  forces 


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under  General  Beauregard,  was  first  fixed  for  the  28th  of  May, 
1862. 

4.  That  the  evacuation  of  Corinth  was  postponed  to  the  29th 
of  May,  1862. 

5.  That  the  evacuation  of  Corinth  was  accomplished  during 
the  nio;ht  of  the  29th  and  morning  of  the  30th  of  May,  1862. 

0.  That  General  Bragg  relieved  General  Beauregard  in  the 
connmand  of  the  forces  at  Tupelo,  in  the  latter  part  of  June, 
186-.\ 

7.  That  Lieut.  Colonel,  then  Major  McLean,  was  acting  as 
chief  Quartermaster  of  the  Army  of  the  Mis-issippi,  about  the 
12th  of  March,  1862. 

8.  That  Major  McLean  was  appointed  chief  quartermaster  of 
the  Army  of  the  Mississippi  by  General  A.  Sidney  Johnston,  on 
the  30th  of  March,  i862. 

9.  That  Liout.  Colonel  McLean  was  relieved  from  duty  as  chief 
quartermaster  of  the  forces,  by  General  Bragg,  on  the  4th  of 
July,  1862,  at  Tupelo,  Miss. 

10.  That  the  Army  of  the  Mississippi,  whilst  Lieut.  Colonel 
McLean  was  its  chief  quartermaster,  both  at  Corinth  and  Tu- 
pelo, was  amply  supplied  with  money,  clothing,  camp  and  garri- 
son equipage,  wagons,  public  animals,  field  transportation  in 
general,  and  with  all  quartermaster's  stores,  with  the  exception 
of  full  rations  of  forage  at  Corinth  and  of  certain  other  articles 
which  were  applied  for,  and  subsequently  obtained  by  the 
quartermaster's  department,  or  the  parties  requiring  them  at  the 
time. 

11.  That  there  wore  throughout  the  army  occasional  com- 
plaints of  the  want,  for  a  short  time,  of  certain  quartermaster's 
supplies,  which  the  evidence  shows  were  sufficiently  accounted 
for,  or  promptly  supplied,  as  far  as  possible,  and  the  circum- 
stances would  permit  of  its  being  done. 

12.  That  the  supply  of  forage  at  Corinth  was  sufficient,  though 
not  full,  and  for  a  time  restricteTl  in  amount  and  kind,  owing  to 
the  nature  of  the  surrounding  country  and  other  circumstances. 
Whilst  at  Tupelo  it  was  amplo,  the  army  then  being  located  in 
the  vicinity  of  a  country  abounding  in  forage. 

13.  That  there  was  but  little  forage  within  reach  of  Corinth 
by  wagon  transportation,  and  that  little  was  consumed  at  an 
early  day  of  our  occupation  of  that  pjst  and  the  adjacent  coun- 
ties. 

14.  That  the  facilities  aflPorded  by  the  rail  roads  concentrating 
at  that  point,  especially  after  their  partial  abanlonment  to  the 
enemy,  were  not  sufficient  f  )r  the  transportation  of  a  full  supply 
of  forag'^  for  the  array  at  Corinth,  and  at  the  same  time  to  sup- 
ply that  army  with  all  other  quartermaster's,  commissary's  and 
ordnaice  stores  reriuirei.  and  at  the  same  time  meet  the  sudden 


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and  unespocted  demands  for  the  transportation  of  large  num- 
l»ers  of  troops,  the  sick,  &c. 

15.  That  an  ahundant  supply  of  corn, 'and  as  much  long  for- 
age as  could  be  found,  was  purchased  by  the  quartermaster's  de- 
partment, and  deposited  along  the  lines  of  the  different  rail 
roads  for  shipment  to  Corinth  ;  and  when  cars  could  be  obtained, 
they  were  generally  kept  loaded  with  such  forage,  ready  to  be 
attached  to  the  passing  trains. 

16.  That  the  rail  roads  were  worked  to  their  utmost  capacity, 
but  that  many  cases  occurred,  where,  from  inability  to  transport 
them,  the  cars  found  ready  loaded  with  forage,  were  left  by  the 
passing  trains  on  the  side  tracks  of  the  rail  roads,  and  thus  d"e» 
tained  or  delayed  in  arriving  at  their  place  of  destination. 

17.  That  all  side  tracks  required  for  the  efficient  working  of 
the  different  railroads  were  laid  down  by  the  quartermaster's  de- 
partment wherever  found  insufficient  fur  the  accommodation  of 
the  increased  business  of  the  rail  roads. 

18.  That  a  competent  military  superintendent  of  the  rail 
roads  (a  mnjor  in  the  quavtern)aster's  department)  was  selected 
by  the  presidents  of  the  rail  roads,  and  with  their  concurrence, 
appointed  by  General  Beauregard,  to  take  upon  himself  the  en- 
tire and  exclusive  control  of  all  the  army  transportation  by  rail 
road,  under  the  immediate  supervision  of  General  Beauregard, 
then  commanding  the  forces. 

19.  That  the  quartermaster's  department,  whilst  under  the 
control  of  Lieut.  Colonel  McLean,  established,  and  had  in  suc- 
cessful operation  throughout  the  district  of  country  under  his 
charge,  many  and  extensive  manufactories  for  the  supply  of  the 
army  with  qua,rtermaster's  stores. 

20.  That  hospitals  were  erected  and  otherwise  supplied  for  the 
use  of  the  army,-  including  that  of  the  Mississippi,  and  were  in 
many  instances  furnished  and  supplied  from  the  stores  of  the 
quartermaster's  department,  whilst  under  the  control  of  Lieut, 
Colonel  McLean. 

21.  That  artesian  wells  were,  under  the  direction  of  Lieut, 
CoJ.  McLean,  successfully  bored  at  Corinth,  to  supply  the  army 
at  that  place  with  water. 

22.  That  corrals  were  established  by  the  quartermaster's  de- 
partment of  the  Array  of  the  Mississippi,  in  the  rear  of  the 
army,  for  the  disabled  and  worn  down  public  animals,  where 
they  were  in  large  numbers,  properly  attended  and  successfully 
recruited  for  the  service. 

23.  That  for  ordinary  purposes,  a  sufficient  and  permanent 
force  of  negro  laborers  was  employed  by  the  quartermaster's 
department  for  loading  and  unloading  the  cars  at  the  rail  road 
depots. 

24.  That  in  cj^ses  of  emergency,  sufficicut  assistance  was  ob- 


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tained  by  details  from  the  army,  upon  tho  application  of  the  par- 
ties (lesirinjx  them,  as  was  the  case  of  the  post  and  ordnance  de- 
partment at  the  evacuation  of  Corinth. 

25.  That  there  was  a  tJuflScient  number  of  competent  and  effi- 
cint  officers  of  the  quartermaster's  department  at  all  times  at  the 
rail  road  depot  at  Corinth,  to  superintend  and  control  the  rail 
road  transportation  of  the  army  during  the  evacuation  of  that 
place. 

26.  That  the  transportation  operations  on  the  occasion  of  the 
evacuation  of  Corinth,  were  expeditiously  and  successfully 
conducted  by  energetic  and  competent  officers  of  the  quarter- 
master's de(f)irtment,  assi^ined  to  the  special  duty  of  i?uperin- 
tending  the  transportation  of  army  stores  and  troops  from  that 
place  by  ^ail. 

27.  That  material  aid  was  rendered  by  General  Brag^  and 
several  members  of  his  staff,  and  some  members  of  the  staff  of 
General  Beauregard,  also  by  other  officers,  as  well  as  by  Col, 
Benton's  regiment,  and  other  details  from  the  army. 

28.  That  there  was  no  public  property  left  in  Corinth  upon 
the  erncuation  of  the  place,  except  a  few  tents  and  broken  wa- 
gons, some  old  harness,  and  some  few  shells  and  other  ordnance 
stores  ;  most  of  which  property  appears  to  have  been  damaged 
or  condemned,  or  not  worth  the  cost  of  its  transportation  under 
the  attending  circumstances. 

29.  That  there  was  a  loss  of  a  number  of  rail  road  engines 
and  cars  loaded  with  army  stores,  upon  the  Memphis  and  Charles- 
ton rail  road,  on  the  morning  of  the  30th  of  May,  1862,  occa- 
sioned by  the  burning  of  the  rail  road  bridges  across  the  llatchie 
and  Tuscumbia  rivers,  in  obedience  to  specific  orders  given  the 
officers  in  command  at  those  bridges,  to  destroy  them  at  a  cer- 
tain h(mr. 

30.  That  tho  quartermaster's  department  had  no  notice  that 
the  bridges  were  to  be  destroyed  ;  otherwise  the  trains  lost  might 
have  been  dispatched  in  time  to  have  passed  the  bridges,  or 
turned  down  the  Mobile  and  Ohio  rail  rond,  and  thus  saved. 

31.  That  there  was  a  loss  of  a  train  of  cars  containing  certain 
government  property,  at  Booneville,  whilst  standing  on  the  track 
of  the  Mobile  and  Ohio  rail  road,  on  the  morning  of  the  oOtli  of 
May,  1862.  occasioned  by  a  raid  of  the  enemy's  cavalry,  over 
which  the  quartermaster's  department  iiad  no  control. 

32.  That  Lieut.  Cm!  )nel  McLean  was,  at  one  time  during  his 
adoiinistration  of  the  quartermaster's  department  of  the  Army 
of  the  Mississippi  and  other  forces,  afflicted  with  a  disease, 
which  was  iociil.  and  not  of  a  nature  permanently  to  disable  him 
from  attending  to  all  the  duties  required  of  him  as  chief  of  his 
department. 

33.  That  with  tho  exception  of  a  few  days'  illness  at  Corinth, 


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about  a  week  previous  to  the  evacuation  of  that  place,  Lieut. 
Colonel  McLean  was  not  unable,  at  any  time  while  chief  quar- 
termaster of  the  army,  to  attend  to  all  the  duties  which  were  re- 
quired of  him,  and  that  he  did  so  attend  promptly  to  all  the  du- 
ties devolving  upon  him  at  the  time. 

34.  That  Lieut  Colonel  McLean  is  shown  by  the  evidence  to 
have  been  prompt,  energetic,  efficient,  courteous  and  considerate 
in  the  discharge  of  his  duties  as  chief  quartermaster  of  the 
army,  successively  under  Generals  Johnston,  Beauregard  and 
Bragg,  and  especially  solicitous  for  the  welfare  and  success  of 
the  department  entrusted  to  his  charge,  and  for  which  he  was 
responsible. 

OPINION  OF    THE    COURT. 

It  is  the  opinion  of  this  Court,  that  from  the  facts  elicited  in 
the  investigation  of  the  conduct  of  the  quartermaster's  depart- 
ment of  the  Army  of  the  Mississippi,  whilst  under  the  control  of 
Lieut.  Colonel,  then  Major  Eugene  E.  McLean,  it  appears  that 
the  department  was  managed  with  all  the  energy,  efriciency,  fore- 
thought and  success  which  could  have  been  expected  under  the 
difficult  circumstances  attending  the  sudden  concentration  of  our 
armies  ;  the  unexpected  occupation  by  the  enemy  of  our  princi- 
pal fields  of  supply;  the  scarcity  of  the  means  of  field  transpor- 
tation ;  the  inability  to  obtain  forage  v/ithin  reasonable  reach  of 
the  army  by  means  of  wagon  transportation  ;  the  failure  or  ina- 
bility of  the  rail  roads  of  the  country  to  transport  from  a  dis- 
tance, when  purchased,  forage  to  the  army;  the  closing  of  the 
great  markets  of  New  Orleans,  Memphis  and  Nashville  ;  the  in- 
terference bv  agents  of  other  branches  of  the  service,  with  the 
departments  of  purchases  of  forage,  and  of  transportation,  under 
Lieut.  Colonel  McLean  ;  the  original  scarcity  throughout  the 
country  of  all  supplies  needed  ;  the  continuance  of  such  scarcity 
in  consequence  of  the  existing  blockade  of  the  ports  of  the  Con- 
federacy ;  and  the  inexperience  of  nearly  all  quartermasters' 
agents  in  the  beginning  of  the  war. 

It  farther  appears  from  the  evidence,  that  in  the  arduous  du- 
ties attending  the  evacuation  of  Corinth  by  the  Confederate  Ar- 
my under  General  Beauregard,  the  quartermaster's  department 
was  fully  represented  by  able  and  efficient  officers,  pres- 
ent at  the  rail  road  depot  day  and  night,  and  to  their  activity 
and  judgment  is  the  successful  rem.oval  of  the  public  store?",  for 
which  the  quartermaster's  department  was  responsible  at  that 
place,  mainly  attributable.  That  the  quartermaster's  depart- 
ment during  the  day  and  night  preceding  the  evacuation  was 
efficiently  aided  by  the  personal  exertions  of  General  Bragg  and 
several  niembers  of  his  and  General  Beauregard's  staff,  and   by 


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the  exertions  of  Col.  Benton's  regiment,  together  with  ether  de- 
tails from  the  army. 

It  also  appears  from  the  evidence,  tliat  the  evacuation  of  Co- 
rinth, so  far  as  the  quartermaster's  department  was  C(jncerned, 
was  a  complete  military  success,  and  that  altht)u^h  so  short  a 
time  was  allowed  to  remove  the  stores,  but  little  property  was 
lost,  and  that  but  of  small  value,  being  mostly  worthless  or  con- 
demned stores.  The  severe  losses  of  the  engines  and  ciirs,  to- 
gether with  the  public  property  contained  in  the  latter,  destroyed 
on  the  morning  of  tiie  evacuation  on  the  Ilatchie  and  Tuscum- 
bia  bridges,  on  the  Memphis  and  Charleston  rail  road,  by  our 
troops,  and  on  the  Mobile  and  Ohio  rail  road,  at  Booneville,  by 
a  raid  of  the  enemy's  cavalry,  are  shown  from  the  evidence  to 
be  in  no  way  attributable  to  the  quartermaster's  department. 

The  Court  is  also  of  opinion,  that  the  investigation  has  fur- 
ther shown,  that  in  the  conduct  of  the  department  committed  to 
his  charge,  Lieut.  Colonel  McLean  was  prompt,  energetic  and 
efficient  in  the  discharge  of  all  the  duties  of  his  office  whilst 
chief  quartermaster  of  the  army,  and  that  whilst  in  the  execu- 
tion of  those  duties,  his  instructions  to  and  teachings  of  his  su- 
bordinates, contributed  much  to  the  success  attendant  on  their 
exertions,  and  to  the  introduction  and  maintenance  of  the  proper 
system  and  order  in  the  various  branches  of  the  departm-ent  en- 
trusted to  his  supervif^ion  and  control. 

IK.  The  Court  of  Enquiry,  of  which  Col.  M.  Lewis  Clark  was 
president,  is  hereby  dissolved. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  ]  Auj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'i/s  Office, 

No.  82.  j  Richmond,  June  12,  18G3. 

The  second  section  of  the  act  eiititled  an  act  to  organize  JPar- 
tiz.an  Rangers,  provides  that  such  Partizan  Rangers,  after  being 
regularly  received  into  service,  shall  be  entitled  to  the  same  pay, 
rations  and  quarters,  during  their  term  of  service,  and  be  subject 
to  the  same  regulations  as  other  soldiers.  The  irregularities  re- 
ported to  this  department  as  having  been  committed  by  such 
corps,  renders  it  proper  that  these  corps  shall  be  placed  under 
stricter  regulations  than  those  heretofore  adopted.  The  Generals 
commanding  the  departments  in  which  they  are  serving,  are 
hereby  authorized  to  combine  them  into  l>attalions  and  regi- 
ments, with  the  view  to  bringing  them  under  the  same  regula- 


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tions  as  other  soldiers,  in  reference  to  their  discipline,  position 
and  movements;  and  the  same  officers  will  recommend  any  fur- 
ther measures  for  their  organization  as  an  integral  portion  of 
their  commands,  as  will  in  their  opinion  promote  their  efl&eiency 
and  the  interests  of  the  service.  The  General  of  the  department 
will  recommend  field  officers  for  the  or^^anizations  that  mny  be 
made,  to  be  submitted  for  the  consideration  of  the  President. 
Such  partizan  corps  as  are  serving  within  the  enemy's  lines,  are 
for  the  present  excepted  from  this  order. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS, )  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  83.  J  Richmond,  June  13,  1863, 

I.  At  a  General  Court  Martial,  convened  at  Shelbyville,  Ten- 
nessee, by  virtue  of  General  Orders,  No.  63,  March  16,  1863, 
from  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector  General's  office,  Richmond,  wns 
arraigned  and  tried : 

Major  General  John  P.  McCoux,  P.  A.  C.  S.,  on  the  follow- 
ing Charge  and  Specification  : 

Charge,     -        -        .        -  Conduct  to  the  prejudice  of  good 

order  and  military  discipline. 

Specification  1~ In  this,  that  Major  General  John  P.  McCoun, 
P.  A.  C.  S.,  being  in  command  of  a  division  serving  with  "Army 
of  Tennessee,"  did,  without  authority,  order,  through  his  .otiitf 
officer,  Major  Bradford,  Assistant  Adjut.ant  General,  dipt.  Olh- 
son,  A.  C.  S.,  4th  Ark.  Regiment,  "  to  go  to  Charleston,  S.  C, 
and  such  other  points  as  may  be  necessary,  when  the  said  Major 
General  John  P.  McCoun,  P.  A.  C.  S.,  knew  that  such  details 
were  not  authorized.  All  this  at  Shelbyville,  Tennessee,  on  or 
before  the  3d  day  of  February,  1863. 

Specification  2 — In  this,  that  Major.  General  John  P.  McCoun, 
P.  A.  C.  S-,  commanding  division,  did,  through  liis  Assistant 
Adjutant  General,  Mnjor  Bradford,  issue  the  said  order  to  Ma- 
jor Olhson,  A.  C.  S,  4th  Arkansas  Regiment,  to  proc>^ed  to 
Charleston,  S.  C,  and  o.her  points,  when  he  the  said  Major 
General  John  P.  McCoun,  P.  A.  C.  S.,  had  but  a  short  time  pre- 
vious received  and  acknowledged  the  receipt  of  an  official  com- 
munication i'rom  the  Commanding  General  of  Department  No. 
2,  requiring  an  explanatioa  in  rea;ard  to  his  detailing  officers  and 
enlisted  men  to  go  fro-ni  his  (McCoun's)  division,  out  of  the  lines 


^6' 

of  the  army.     All  this  at  Shelbyville,  Tennessee,  on  or  about  the 
3d  day  of  February,  1863. 

l\.-  Finding  and  Sentence  of  the  Court. 
After  maturely  considering;  the  evidence  adduced,   the  Court 
find  the  accused,  Major  General  John  P.  McCoun,  P.  A.  C.  S.,a8 
follows,  to  wit : 

Of  the  1st  Specification,  -  -  -  .       Guilty. 

Of  the  2d  Specification,  -  -  -  Not  Guilty. 

Of  the  Charge,  .....       Guilty. 

And  do  sentence  him  to  be  suspended  from  all  rank,  pay  and 
emoluments  for  the  space  of  six  months  ;  and  that  he  he  repri- 
manded in  General  Orders,  by  the  officer  reviewing  the  pruceed- 
ino;s  of  this  Court. 

III.  The  proceedings,  findings  and  sentence  in  the  foregoing  case 
having  been  submitted  to  the  Secretary  of  War,  to  be  hiid  before 
the  President,  and  having  been  duly  considered,  the  same  are 
approved,  and  the  sentence  of  the  Court  will  be  carried  into  ef- 
fect. Major  General  John  P.  McCoun  is  therefore  suspended 
from  rank,  pay,  emoluments  and  command  for  six  months  from 
this  date. 

IV.  The  General  Court  Martial,  convened  bv  General  Orders, 
No.    63,  Adjutant  and  Inspector  General's  office,  and  of  which 
Major  General  J.  M.  Withers  is  president,  is  hereby  dissolved. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER. 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  ]  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  84.  ]  Richmond,  June  15,  1563. 

I.  Ordnance  officers  on  duty  in  the  field  do  not  form  a  part  of 
the  personal  stafi"  of  the  Commanding  General.  ♦ 

II.  Chiefs  of  Ordnance  of  Armies  and  Departments  will  be 
assigned  by  the  War  Department,  and  will  not  be  removed, 
except  on  orders  through  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector  General's 
ofiice. 

III.  Other  Ordnance  oflBcers  will  continue  to  serve  with  tho 
commands  to  which  they  are  attached  until  relieved  by  orders 
from  the  head  quarters  of  the  army  or  department  in  which  they 
are  serving.  Copies  of  orders  assigning  or  relieving  Ordnance 
officers  will  be  forwarded  to  the  Chief  of  the  Ordnance  Bureau 
at  Richmond. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


96 

GENERAL  ORDERS,]  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  85.  J  Richmond,  June  16,  1863. 

I.  The  following  Act  of  Congress,  and  the  Regulations  adopted 
by  the  Department  in  pursuance  thereof,  are  published  for  the 
information  of  all  concerned : 

AN  ACT  TO  ESTABLISH  A  NITRE  AND  MINING  BUREAU. 

"  Sect.  1.  Tlie  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  do  enact, 
That  the  officers  authorized  and  appointed  under  the  act  entitled 
an  act  for  the  organization  of  a  corps  of  officers  for  the  working 
of  nitre  caves,  &c.,  passed  April  11,  1862,  together  with  such 
additional  officers  as  are  authorized  by  the  provisions  of  this  act, 
shall  constitute  an  independent  bureau  of  the  War  Department, 
to  be  entitled  '  The  Nitre  and  Mining  Bureau/ 

*'  Sec.  2.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  said  bureau  shall  have 
charge  of  all  the  duties  prescribed  in  the  second  section  of  said 
act,  and  shall  besides  be  charged  with  all  duties  and  expendi- 
tures com.ected  with  the  mining  of  iron,  copner,  lead,  coal,  <fec., 
6C  far  as  it  shall  be  deemed  necessary  to  supply  the  military 
necessities  of  the  country;  and  the  superintendent  thereof  shall, 
under  the  Secretary  of  War,  have  full  power  to  make  such  leases 
of  real  estate,  and  purchases  of  •fixtures,  as  are  necessary  or  ap- 
purtenant to  any  mines  it  m  ly  be  deemed  expedient  to  open  or 
work  on  government  account;  and  may  also  contract,  subject  to 
the  approval  of  the  Secretary  of  War,  for  such  supplies,  by  pur- 
chase or  ottierwise,  of  all  copper,  lead,  iron,  coal,  zinc,  and  such 
other  minerals  as  may  be  required  for  the  prosecution  of  the  war. 

"Sec.  3.  Be  it  further  enacted.  That  said  bureau  shall  consist 
of  one,  Lieutenant  Colonel  as  superintendent;  three  Majors  as 
assistant  superintendents;  six  Captains  and  ten  Lieutenants,  in 
which  shall  be  included  the  officers  of  the  present  nitre  corps, 
who  shall  have  the  same  pay  and  allowances  prescribed  for  officers 
of  cavalry  of  the  same  grades,"     [Approved  April  22,  1863.] 

II.  The  Secretary  of  War  is  of  opinion  that  it  is  necessary  to 
accumulate  supplies  of  iron,  in  the  various  military  departments, 
for  the  repair  of  rail  roads,  the  manufacture  of  arms,  munitions 
and  materials  of  war,  and  for  the  operations  of  the  quarter- 
master's, ordnance  and  engineer  departments,  and  that  experi- 
ence has  shown  that  the  necessary  supply  cannot  be  obtained  by 
purchase.  Impressment,  therefore,  according  to  the  act  of  Con- 
gress relating  to  impressments,  has  become  necessary  to  secure  a 
supply.  It  is  ordered  that  all  impressments  that  may  be  made 
of  iron  for  this  purpose,  shall  be  conducted  by  the  chiefs  of  the 
quartormast^rs,  ordnance,  engineer  and  nitre  and  mining  bureaux, 


<5T  by  officers  designated  by  them,  who  shall  in  every  instance 
communicate  to  the  owner  th«  necessity  that  exists  for  the  use  of 
the  property,  the  disposition  of  the  officers  to  purchase  the  same, 
and  an  offer  to  purchase  it  at  a  price  to  be  ascertained,  in  accord- 
ance with  the  act  relating  to  impressments,  if  the  parties  cannot 
agree  upon  the  sam«.* 

III.  And  whereas  the  existing  necessity  for  iron  in  the  depart- 
ments aforesaid,  and  for  the  good  of  the  public  service  is  such, 
that  all  practicable  measures  musj;  be  taken  to  secure  an  adequate 
supply,  it  is  fcarther  ordered,  that  whenever  it  may  become  neces- 
sary to  secure  the  full  product  of  any  mine  or  manufactory,  that 
the  same  shall  be  worked  for  the  sole  benefit  of  the  government 
of  the  Confederate  States,  ft  shall  be  competent  to  the  chief  of 
cither  of  the  departments  aforesaid  to  lease  or  purchase  the  same; 
and  in  case  that  the  lease  or  purchase  is  impracticable,  then  they 
are  authorized  to  impress  the  same  f«r  the  use  of  the  Confederate 
States  duiing  the  war,  or  while  such  necessity  shall  continue. 

IV.  The  proceedings  under  thes^  orders  will  be  conducted 
under  the  4th  section  of  the  act  concerning  impressments,  and 
in  pursuance  of  the  directions  centaincd  in  paragraph  I. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  <sLnd  Itispector  General, 


GENERAL  ORDERS,)  Adj't  and  Insp'k  Gkn'l's  Officb, 

No.  86.  j  Richmond,  June  22,  1863. 


iW 


Whereas,  there  has  been  a  number  of  applications  to  this  de~ 
partment  for  authority  to  raise  companies  for  local  defence  anijT' 
special  service,  and  for  instructions  as  to  the  method  by  whiofts 
such  organizations  may  be  made  and  the  privileges  they  may^ 
claim,  the  department  has  adopted  the  following  regulations  on 
the  subject:  Ijx 

I.  Companies,  battalions  and  regiments,  composed  of  persgas 
not  within  the  ago  of  conscription  (18  and  40),  will  be  acceptgj^ 
as  volunteers  throughout  the  Confederacy,  under  the  act  of  4Kte 
gust  2l8t,  1861  (No.  229),  for  local  defence  and  special  servicqiiiij 

*See,  also,  Gen.  Orders,  No.  10^   1864.  '  ic't 

v 

t  Amended  by  Par   II,  Gen,  Orders,  No.  ^8 

5 


9§ 

,11.  The  organization  of  corps  for  local  defense  muet  conform 
to  that  prescribed  for  compariiep,  liattalions  and  regiments  of 
the  pruvisinnal  army.  The  mimmum  numherlora  cdmpany  of 
infantry  of  64  rank  and  file,  and  for  cavalrj  GO.  Battalions  must 
consist  of  not  less  than  five  ccmpanie^,  and  reginiects  of  ten. 
Artillery  is  not  desirable.  Members  of  cavalry  companies  must 
furnish  their  own  horses,  but  will  receive  forty  cents  per  day  for 
their  use  vrhile  in  actual  service. 

III.  The  muster  roll  of  all  such  organizations  shall  specify 
that  the  said  organizations  are  itiised  under  this  act,  and  subjecb 
to  these  regulations,  and  contain  a.  description  of  the  volunteer 
as  to  «ge,  residence  and  date  of  enlistment,  and  the  term  of 
enlistment  for  the  war. 

IV.  Such  organizations  v?ill  not  be  considered  as  in  actual 
Bcrvice,  for  the  purpose  of  receiving  pay  or  subsistence,  except 
vrhen  called  for  by  the  Presiteut. 

V.  They  "will  not  bo  called  for  until  a  necessity  arises  for 
Bervice.  They  shall  not  be  required  to  go  beyond  the  limits  of 
the  State  to  which  they  belong. 

VI.  They  are  expected  to  servo  when  called  out,  only  so  long 
as  the  emergency  exifts,  and  then  to  return  to  their  ordinary 
pursuits  until  again  called,     ~ 

VII.  Arms^and  equipments,  when  not  possessed  by  the  mem- 
bers, will,  to  the  extent  necessary  to  supply,  be  furnished  by  the 
Confederate  States. 

VIII.  Should  any  of  them  be  captured,  they  shall  be  claimed 
ftg  prisoners  of  war,  and  all  the  protection  of  the  government 
■will  be  extended  to  them. 

IX.  Field  officers  of  battalions  and  regiments  to  be  organized, 
will  be  appointed  by  the  President,  in  accordance  with  the  acfe 
aforesaid.  Company  officers  may  be  elected  by  the  companies, 
or  appointed,  as  the  members  may  consent. 

X.  That  these  organizations  will  be  preferred  to  and  exempt 
their  members  from  any  call  of  militia. 

XL  The  commandant  of  any  military  post  of  the  Confederate 
States,  the  sheriflf  of  any  county,  or  the  colonel  commanding  any 
militia  regiment,  or  tl.»  judge  or  justice  of  any  county  or  other 
court,  may  certify  and  return  the  muster  rolls,  which  must  be 
sent  to  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector  General's  Office  at  Richmond, 
for  Acceptance. 

XII,  In  the  eTcnt  of  a  call  by  the  President,  under  the  law 


cf  conscription,  on  all  between  the  ages  of  40  and  4o,  those  in  said 
organizations  subject  to  such  call  will  bo  liable  to  discharge  or 
transfer. 

For  the  information  and  guidanca  of  those  desirous  of  volun- 
teering for  local  defeace,  the  law  of  August  2lst,  1861,  is  hereto 
appended. 

An  Act  to  provide  for  Local  defence  and  Special  Service. 

"Sec  1.  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  Slates  of  America 
do  enact.  That  the  President  be  and  he  is  hereby  authorized  to 
accept  the  services  of  vulunteers  of  such  kind  and  in  such  pro- 
portion aa  he  may  deem  expedient,  to  serve  for  such  time  as  he 
may  prescribe,  for  the  <lefenco  of  exposed  places  or  localities,  or 
such  special  service  as  he  may  deeos  expedient. 

"  Sec.  2.  And  such  f  )rce3  shall  be  mustered  into  the  service  of 
the  Confederate  States  fur  the  local  defence  or  special  service 
aforesaid,  the  master  roll  setting  forth  distinctly  the  services  to 
bo  performed  and  the  said  voliiateers  shall  not  be  considered  in 
actual  service,  until  thcroLinto  specially  ordered  by  tlie  Presi- 
dent ;  and  they  shall  be  entitled  to  pay  or  subsistence  only  for 
such  time  as  they  may  be  on  duty  under  the  orders  of  the  Presi- 
dent, or  by  his  direction. 

"Sec.  3.  Such  volunteer  forces,  when  so  accepted  and  ordered 
into  servi'ce,  shall  be  organized  in  accordance  With  and  subject  to 
aU  the  provisions  of  the  ai^t  entitled  an  act  to  provide  for  the 
public  dcjfence,  approved  March  6th,  1861,  and  may  be  attached 
to  such  divisions,  brigade;),  regiments  or  battalions  as  the  Presi- 
dent may  direct;  and  when  not  organized  into  battalions  or  regi- 
ments before  being  mustered  into  service,  the  President  shall 
appoint  the  field  officers  of  the  battalions  or  regiments,  when 
organiZ''d  as  such  by  him."    .[Approved  August  21st,  1861.] 


By  order. 


S.  COOPER, 

Adjutant  and  ItiJ^pector  OeneraL 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  |  Adj't  and  Insp'e  GhnVs  Offxck, 

No.  87.  j  Richmond,  June,  23, 1863. 

Thf^  f  .Mowing  Forms  fir  the  onlistment  of  gubatitutes,  and  the 
didoharg©  of  8aldi3rs  presenting  the  saaie,  will  hereafter  be 
obs»rv«d: 


100 

(Duplicates.) 

AIIMY  OF  THE  CONFEDEKATE  STATES. 

AppIicaiioTLjor  discharge  on  account  of  having  furnished  a  SuL- 

siitule. 


-,  of  Captain   CompaDy  ( ),  of  the 


Eef];iment  of  the  Confederate  States  Army ,  was  enlisted 

t)j ^  of  the RegiQient  of ,  at ,  on  the 

(lay  of    ,  186 — ,  to  serve years,  and  not  for 

the  purpose  of  furnishing  a  substitute.     lie  was  born  in , 

in  the  State  of — ,i8  — - — -  years  of  ago, feet 


inches  high,  — — — -  complexion, ejt-s,  — -^^.r—  hair,  and 

by  occupation  when  enlisted  a . 

I  hereby  certify  that  s?iid  soldier  has  furnished  an  able  bodift<l 

man,  well  clothed,  in  the  .person  of — ,  as  his  substitute, 

•whom  I  am  willing;  to  receive,  being  satisfied  that  the  oubstitut© 
is  not  now  liable  to  conscription,  by  reason  of 

Station:  

I>ATE^  


Commanding  Company. 

I  certify  that  I  have  carefully  examined  the  said ,  and 

find  him  sound,  and  in  all  respects  fit  f')r  military  service. 

————  , 

Surgeon  P.  A.  C.  S. 

discharged,  this  — — —  day  of  — -,  186 — ,  at . 

Commanding  Battalion  or  Jiegiinenf. 

I  hei'eby  declare  on  oath  that  I  am  a  resident  of  the  State  of 
,  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America,  and  a  citizen  there- 


of; that  I  am years  of  ago  ;  have  not  received  from  or 

paid  to  any  agent  raoney  inducing  me  to  enlist  as  a  substitute^ 
and  am  not  a  member  uf  any  ctnipanv  whatever. 

Sworn  to  before  me,  on  this day  of ,  186 — . 

J.  P.  or  K.  'p. 
Approved : 

Commanding  Begimeni. 


101 


Head  QiTAitTBRe, 


Discharge  approved. 


-,  186—. 


General  Commanding, 


SOLDIER'S  DISCHARGE. 

To    ALL   WHOM    IT    MAY   CONCERN  : 

—  of  Captain 


Know  Ye,  That  — 
Regiment  of 


who  WHS  enlisted  the 


,  one  thousand  eight  handred  and 


to  serve 


Company, 
day  of 


is  hereby  eonorably  discharged  from  the  Army  of  the  Confeder- 
ate States,   by  reason  of  his  having  furnished  a  substitute   in 

the  person  of  ^ — ,  a  citizen   of   the  Confederate   States   of 

America, —  years  of  age,  as  shown  by  affidavit  on  file,  who 

has  been  examined  by  a  surgeon  of  the  command,  and  found 
duly  qualified  to  perform  the  duties  of  a  soldier.  I  certify  tlat 
he  is  the  only  substitute  received  in  the  company  during  the 
present  month,  and  that  the  principal  was  not  enlisted  for  th© 
purpose  of  furnishing  a  substitute. 

Said ■ —  was  born   in  — — ,  in  the   State  of ,  is 

- — —  years  of  age,  -— feet inches  high, com- 
plexion,  —  eyes, —  hair,  and  by  occupation  when  eft- 


listed  a 
Given  at 


this 


—  day  of 


186—. 


Approved 


Commanding  Regiment, 


General  Commanding  Army  (or  Department). 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General, 


aENERAL  ORDERS, 

No.  88. 


Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Oppicb, 
Jiichmond,  June  24,  1863. 


Operators  on  telegraph  lines,  established  by  military  comman- 
ders  for  military  purposes,  will  be   allowed   payment  f^r  their 
services,  not  to  exceed  the  rate  of  compensation  fixed  and  allowed 
by  the  Postmaster  General  to  the  operators  under  his  control. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
J-dJutani  itkd  Inspa'hr  Goiifat. 


VJ^ 


GENERAL  ORDERS,]         Adj't  and  Lnsp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 
No.  89.  j  Richmond,  June  25,  1863. 

All  diBcharges  for  disability  will  he  held  as  conditional,  de- 
pendent upon  the  disjibility,  and  valid  only  during  its  continu- 
ance. If,  on  examination,  the  di>abilify  is  at  any  time  found  to 
have  ceased,  the  holders  will  be  liable  to  conscription,  to  serve 
the  unexpired  terms  of  their  enlistments.  This  regulation  ap- 
plies to  substitutes,  whether  under  or  over  the  age  of  conscrip- 
tion. Their  services  are  due  for  the  war,  and  the  government 
should  not  be  deprived  of  them,  for  what  pro^s  to  be  a  tempo- 
rary disability. 


By  order. 


S,  COOPER, 
Adjutant  ctnd  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  ]  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'i/s  Office, 

No.  90.  j  Bichmond,June2i5,lS6$. 

I.  The  senior  officer  of  engineers,  serving  with  an  army  in  the 
field,  will  be  held  responsible  for  the  proper  execution  of  all  du- 
ties appertaining  to  his  department ;  and  the  orders  of  the  Com- 
manding General  relating  to  the  engineer  service,  will  be  ci  mmu- 
nicated  through  him,  and  lie  will  recommend  to  the  General 
commanding,  the  assignments  of  junior  officers  of  engineers,  to 
serve  with  corps,  divisions  and  brigades.  The  engineer  ofiicer  of 
highest  rank  in  each  assignment,  will  receive  the  orders  of  his 
immediate  commander,  report  to  him  whatever  concerns  the  en- 
gineer service,  and  communicate  to  him  the  orders  he  receives 
from  the  senior  engineer.  He  will  also  report  to  the  senior  engi- 
neer all  his  operations,  with  sketches,  drawings  and  maps,  for 
the  information  of  the  Commanding  General,  and  lor  transmis- 
sion to  the  Engineer  Bureau. 

II.  All  officers  of  engineeis,  and  employees  under  the  Engi- 
neer Department,  will  communicate  through  the  proper  channels 
with  the  senior  engineer  serving  with  the  army  in  the  field,  be 
responsible  to  him  for  all  public  funds  rnd  property  in  their 
hands,  and  receive  his  orders  and  instructions. 

III.  The  duties  of  officers  of  engineers  serving  with  the  ar- 
mies of  the  Confederate  States  in  the  field,  camp  or  cantonment, 
are  as  follows,  viz  :  To  mnke  reconnoissances  and  surveys  of  the 
e«^tion8  of  country  occupied  V>y  our  forces',  and,  as  far  a.«  pof.ti- 


ins 

bio,  of  the  country  held  by  the  enemy,  embracino;  all  the  infor* 
mation  that  can  be  obtained  in  reference  to  roads,  bri(];;eg,  fords, 
J;opographical  and  military  features,  the  character  and  dimen- 
sions of  the  water  courses,  the  practicability  of  constrncting  fixed 
and  floating  bridges^the  extent  of  wooded  and  cleared  lands,  and 
the  capacity  of  tiie  country  to  supply  the  general  wants  of  the 
army  ;  to  make  detailed  examinations  and  surveys  of  positions  to 
be  occupied  for  defensive  purposes  ;  to  select  the  sites,  and  form 
plans,  projects  and  estimates  for  all  military  w-orkn,  defensive  or 
oJBfensive,  viz  :  field  forts,  battAriee,  rifle  pits,  lines  of  intantry 
cover,  military  trenches,  parallels,  saps,  mines,  and  other  works 
of  attack  and  siege ;  also,  works  for  obstructing  rivers  and  har- 
bors;  to  prepare  such  maps  and  plans  as  will  give  a  full  know- 
ledge of  the  ground  and  proposed  works,  and  submit  the  same  to 
the  Commanding  General  for  his  information  and  consideration, 
and  forward,  through  the  proper  channels,  copies  of  all  reports, 
memoirs,  estimates,  plans,  drawings  and  models  relating  to  tho 
duties  above  enumerated,  to  the  Engineer  Bureau  at  lUchmoud. 

IV.  The  locations  and  plans  for  the  works  being  thus  deter- 
mined, they  will  be  marked  out  on  the  ground  by  the  engineers, 
who  will  indicate  by  stakes,  lines,  profiles  and  other  guides,  the 
shape  and  dimensions  of  the  diff'erent  parts,  for  the  information 
and  government  of  those  who  direct  the  troops  or  laborers  em- 
ployed to  do  the  work.  When  troops  are  detailed  to  construct 
temporary  defences,  they  will  be  in  all  cases  commanded  by  their 
ofiicers,  who  will  see  that  the  work  is  done  in  exact  cont''ormity  to 
the  plans  and  directions  of  the  ofiScer  of  engineer.^,  without  re- 
gard to  rank. 

y.  When  an  oflicer  of  engineers  is  charged  with 'directing  an 
expedition,  or  making  a  reconnoissance  requiring  tlic  support  of 
an  escort,  without  having  command  of  the  troops,  he  will  call  on 
the  commander  of  the  escort  to  move  with,  and  extend  to  hira  all 
protection  neecssary  to  secure  the  success  of  the  operation. 

VI.  OflBcers  of  engineers  will  not  assume,  nor  ])e  ordered  on 
any  duty  beyond  the  line  of  their  immediate  prolession,  except 
by  special  order  of  the  President.  In  the  operations  of  the  ar- 
mies of  the  Confederate  States,  all  that  appertains  to  the  science 
of  civil  or  military  engineering  will  be  assigned  by  commanders 
to  the  offiv^ers  of  engineers  serving  with  their  forces  ;  and  with 
them  will  rest  the  responsibility  of  a  proper  execution  of  the 
works.  The  labor  will  be  performed,  if  possible,  by  details  of 
troops  commanded  by  their  officers;  in  other  casos,  liy  .hired 
labor  under  tho  control  of  overseers  employed  by  the  engineer 
officers. 


101 

VII.  Officers  of  engineers  will  not  be  required  to  gire  othet 
supervision  to  ths  fatigue  parties  or  laborers  employed  in  the 
construction  of  works,  than  ia  necessary  to  indicate,  in  a  clear 
and  distinct  manner  to  those  directing  the  labor,  their  plans,  ana 
the  character  of  the  work  to  be  done. 

VIII.  The  senior  officer  of  engineers  serving  with  a  Command- 
ing General  in  the  field,  will  transmit  to  the  Engineer  Bureau  at 
Richmond  the  reports,  plang  and  journals  called  for  by  para^ 
graph  478,  Army  Regulations, 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General, 


ENERAL  ORDERS,] 
No.  91.  ) 


GENERAL  ORDERS, )  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Officb, 

Richmondy  June  27,  1863. 


I.  Before  the  Military  Court  attached  to  Lt.  Gen.  I^ongstreet's 
Corps,  was  arraigned  and  tried :  * 

Lt.  Cul.  C.  C.  Flowerree,  7th  Virginia  Infantry, 

Charge — Drunkenness  on  duty, 

(The  Specification  is  omitted  as  unnecessary.) 

Finding. 

The  Court  do  affirm  the  plea  of  the  accused,  and  find  him  ao 
follows,  viz  : 

Of  the  Specification,  .  *  ,  ♦  Guilty, 

Of  the  Charge,  .....  Guilty. 

Sentence. 

To  be  cashiered,  and  dismissed  the  service  of  the  Confederate 

States. 

Recommendation  of  the  Court. 

The  undersigned,  the  members  of  the  Military  Court  fur  the 
Department  of  Virginia  and  North  Carolina,  respectfully  repre- 
sent to  Lieutenant  General  Longstreet,  and  through  him  to  the 
President,  that  they  have  come  to  the  judgment  rendered  in  this 
case  with  reluctance.  Though  it  may  bo  true  that  this  Court  is 
vested  with  all  the  powers  possesRed  by  the  Special  Court  of  En* 
quiry,  as  it  is  termed,  appointed  by  act  of  the  Confederate  Con- 
gress, approved  21st  April,  1862,  and  vested  therefore  with  the 
dieoretion  as  to  drunkenness  in  officers,  possessed  by  that  Court, 


105 

they  yet  are  of  the  opinion  that  that  Court  possossecFno  digcre- 
tion  as  to  the  punishment  of  oflSicers  for  drunkenness  "on  duty." 
The  45th  Article  of  War  prescribes  that  officers  so  offendinc;  shall 
he  cashiered  ;  and  as  that  article  is  not  repealed  in  terms,  nor  by 
necessary  implication,  in  the  said  act  of  the  2lst  April,  they  con- 
ceive that  that  article  is  still  the  rule  of  punishment  for  such  of- 
fences; but,  as  before  stated,  they  have  come  to  that  conclusion 
with  reluctance.  They  find  many  inducements  to  a  milder  sen- 
tence. They  find  that  the  season  and  the  service  were  so  severe 
as  to  excuse  to  some  extent  the  use  of  ardent  spirits.  They  find 
that  the  "duty '' upon  which  this  officer  was  eDgap;ed  was  not 
such  as  to  require  any  special  exercise  of  care,  conduct  or  capa- 
city ;  and  they  find  that  he  has  established  a  character  which  is 
abundant  of  promise  to  the  service  and  the  State.  For  these 
reasons^  therefore,  they  would  have  imposed  a  milder  sentence, 
and  especially  would  not  have  deprived  the  Confederacy  of  his 
further  services  in  the  line  of  his  profession.  But  in  the  absencOj 
as  they  conceive,  of  such  discretion,  they  can  only  commend  him 
to  the  clemency  of  the  Executive,  which  they  hope  may  be  exer- 
cised in  such  abatement  of  this  sentence  at  least  as  will  reetore 
him  to  his  command. 

II.  The  proceeding's,  findings  and  sentence  in  this  case  having 
been  laid  before  the  Secretary  of  War,  for  the  final  order  of  the 
President,  the  following  decision  has  been  rendered  : 

The  view  taken  by  the  Court  as  to  the  efi'ect  of  the  45th  Arti- 
cle of  War  in  such  cases  as  it  provides  for,  is  concurred  in  :  and 
the  proceedings,  findings  and  sentence  of  the  Court  are,  there- 
fore, approved.  But  in  consideration  of  the  recommendation  of 
the  Court,  and  Lieut.  Gen.  Longstreet,  and  of  the  gallantry  and 
good  character  of  Lieut.  Col.  Flowerree,  the  sentence  is  remitted, 
and  he  will  return  to  duty. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjatant  and  Inspector  General, 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  ]  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  02.  J    .  Riclimond,  June  29,  1«G3. 

I.  The  acts  of  Congress,  passed  on  the  6th  of  April,  18G3,  and 
dates  bubsequent  thereto,  having  provided  the  means  of  procur- 
ing army  supplies,  notice  is  hereby  given  to  the  people  of  the 
Confederate  wStates  and  to  receiving  officers,  that  from  the  date  of 
this  publication  no  more  quartermaster's  supplies  will  I/o  re- 
ceived under  the  appeal  mi^e  bj  the  President,  and  the  plan  of 


the  Secretary  of  War  annexed  thereto.  All  such  supplies  col- 
lected or  tendered  prior  to  the  time  above  referred  to,  will  be 
paid  for  nt  established  rates.  Hereafter  supplies  -will  be  ob- 
tained, as  far  as  practicable,  by  purchase,  and  Avhen  necessary, 
by  impressment;  and  officers,  when  authorized  to  resort  to  im- 
pressment, will  observe  strictly  the  requirements  of  law,  and  the 
General  Orders  oi  the  War  Department,  and  the  regulations  of 
this  oflSce  founded  thereon. 

II.  That  any  officer  who  shall  be  authorized  by  the  act  of  Con- 
gress concernmp;  impressments,  or  under  the  regulations  of  this 
department  pursuant  thereto,  which  have  been  or  may  hereafter 
be  made,  and  who  has  given  the  notice  required  by  the  game, 
shall  have  full  p.wer  and  authority  to  enter  upon  any  property 
in  which  he  shall  have  good  reason  to  suspect  any  of  the  articles 
of  produce,  goods,  merchandize,  or  other  things  subject  to  im- 
pressment, may  be  stored  or  concealed,  in  order  to  obtain,  or  se- 
cure the  same  ;  and  if  he  shall  have  reason  to  believe  that  they 
are  stored  or  concealed  in  any  dwelling  house,  storehouse  or  other 
building,  to  which  he  is  refused  access,  he  may  apply  to  any 
judge,  justice  of  the  peace,  or  commissioner  of  a  Confederate 
Court,  for  a  warrant  to  enter  upon  the  same,  upon  oath  of  the 
facts,  and  describing  the  objects  stored  or  concealed,  and  obtain 
a  warrant  to  search  for  and  secure  the  same  ;  which  warrant 
shall  only  be  executed  in  the  day  time,  and  after  a  demand  of 
the  owner  or  occupant,  if  the  owiier  or  occupant  shall  then  be 
inhabiting  the  building  aforesaid. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General, 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  ]  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  93.  J  Bichmond,  Jane  30,  1863. 

Paragraph  I,  General  Orders,  No.  49,  current  series,  is  so 
amended  that  the  appraisement  of  deceased  soldiers'  clothing 
shall  be  made  after  it  has  been  washed  ond  put  in  condition  by 
the  quartermaster,  and  will  approximate  to  the  government  prices 
or  rates  at  which  it  was  originally  issued. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjtitani  and  Inspector  General. 


lUT 

GENERAL  ORDERS,  ]  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office 

No.  94.  j  Richmond,  July  4, 1863. 

Information  having  been  received  that^soldiers,  absent  from 
their  commands  without  proper  authority,  are  employed  by  ofl&- 
cers  in  charge  of  Government  w^ork,  it  is  hereby  directed  that  all 
such  men  be  returned  immediately  to  their  respective  companiea. 
Officers,  who  employ  men  not  regularly  detailed,  will,  in  every 
instance,  be  held  answerable  for  the  offence  before  a  Court  Mar- 
tial. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General, 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  )  Adj't  and  Insp'k  Gen'l's  Officb, 

No.  95.  )  RicJimond,  July  7,  1863. 

I.  Before  a  General  Court  Martial,  convened  at  the  camp  of 
Brig.  Gen.  Pax  ton,  by  virtue  of  General  Orders,  No.  128,  of 
1862,  per  Head  Quarters  Department  of  Northern  Virginia,  was 
arraigned  and  tried: 

Private  M.  Ricket,  Company  H,  27th  Ya.  Infantry,  on  the 
following  Charge  : 

Charge — Violation  of  the  52d  Article  of  War. 

FINDING. 

Of  the  Specification,  Guilty. 

Of  the  Charge,  Guilty. 

SENTENCE. 

To  be  shot  to  death  with  musketry. 

II.  Before  a  General  Court  Martial,  convened  at  the  Camp  of 
Brig,  Gen.  F.  Leo's  Brigade,  by  virtue  of  General  Orders,  No.  12, 
current  series,  from  Head  Quarters  Department  of  Northern  Vir- 
ginia, were  arraigned  and  tried  : 

Privates  \Vm.  G.  Clarke  and  J.  R.  Humphreys,  cf  Buathed's 
Battery,  Stuart's  Horse  Artillery,  on  the  following  Charge: 

CuARGK— Violation  of  the  23d  Article  of  War. 

FINDING. 

Of  the  Spneifi:ation,  Guilty. 

Of  the  Charge,  Guilty. 


108 

SENTENCE, 

To  be  shot  to  death  with  musketry. 

III.  Before  a  General  Court  Martial,  convened  at  the  Camp  of 
Major  Gen.  R.  H.  Anderson's  Division,  by  virtue  of  General  Or- 
ders, No.  133,  of  1862,  per  Head  Quarters  Department  of  North- 
ern Virginia,  was  arraigned  and  tried: 

Private  John  Q.  Childres,  Company  G,  5th  Florida  Kegiment, 
on  the  following  Charge  :* 

Charge— Violation  of  the  52d  Article  of  War. 

FINDING. 

Of  the  Specification,  Guilty. 

Of  the  Charge,  Guilty. 

SENTENCE. 

To  be  shot  to  death  with  musketry* 

IV.  Before  a  General  Court  Martial,  convened  at  Savannah 
Ga.,  by  virtue  of  General  Orders,  No.  61,  current  series.  Head 
Quarters  Department  S.  C,  Ga.  and  Fla.,  was  arraigned  and 
tried  : 

Private  Henry  Smith,  Co.  E,  22d  Battalion  Ga.  Artillery,  on 
the  following  Charge  : 

Charge — Violation  of  the  46th  Article  of  War. 

FINDING. 

Of  the  Specification,  '  Guilty. 

Of  the  Charge,  Guilty. 

SENTENCE. 

To  be  shot  to  death  with  musketry. 

V.  The  proceedings  in  the  cases  of  privates  M.  Ricket,  Co.  H, 
27th  Va.  Infantry,  William  G.  Clarke  and  J.  R.  Humphreys,  of 
Capt.  Buathed's  Battery,  Stuart's  Horse  Artillery;  John  L. 
Childres,  Company  t>,  5th  Fla.  Regiment,  and  Henry  Smith,  Co. 
E,  2'^d  Battalion  Ga.  Artillery,  having  been  laid  before  the  Sec- 
retary of  War,  for  the  decision  of  the  President,  the  following  or- 
ders are  made  thereon  : 

The  several  Articles  of  War,  with  the  violation  of  which  the 
above  named  are  respectively  charged,  neither  prescribe  any  duty 
or  detine  and  prohibit  any  offence.  They  simply  pronounce  pun- 
ishments to  be  imposed  for  certain  offences.  The  charge  of  a 
violatiun  uf  such  articles  Is  too  indefinite  to  justify  punishment 


109 

under  it.  The  defect  is  fatal,  and  vitiates  the  -whole  proceed- 
ings; which  are  therefore  set  aside.  The  parties  will  be  released 
from  clof-e  confinement,  and  returned  to  duty  ;  and  it  is  hoped 
that  their  future  conduct  will  be  such  as  to  prevent  any  regret 
that  they  should  have  thus  escaped  the  fate  to  which  they  were 
sentenced. 

VI.  Before  a  General  Court  Martial,  convened  at  Shelbyville, 
Tenn.,  by  Special  Orders,  No.  54,  from  Head  Quarters  Army  of 
Tennessee,  was  arraigned  and  tried  : 

Assistant  Surgeon  W.  T.  Lockhart,  P.  A.  C.  S.,on  the  follow- 
ing Charge : 

Charge — Conduct  prejudicial  to  good  order  and  military  dis* 
cipline. 

Specification  1st — For  that  the  said  Asst.  Surg.  W.  T.  Lock- 
hart,  at  the  Hospital  of  Withers'  Division,  in  Shelbyville,  Tenn.,  . 
on  the  2Gth  day  of  March,  1863,  did  harshly  and  capriciously 
curse  and  abuse  one  private  D.  F.  Halliburton,  Co.  B,  12th  Tenn. 
Regiment,  he  the  said  Halliburton  then  and  there  being  a  senti- 
nel on  guard  duty. 

The  other  Specifications  are  omitted,  being  nearly  the  same  as 
the  first.  # 

FINDING. 

Of  the  third  Specification  of  the  Charge,  Guilty, 

except  the  words  "  discharging  his  duty." 
Of  the  2d  Specification,  Guilty, 

except  the  words  '*  and  knock  down." 
Of  the  ist  Specification,  Guilty, 

except  the  words  '*  curse  and." 
Of  the  Charge,  Guilty. 

SENTENCE. 

To  be  dismissed  the  service. 

VII.  The  proceedings  in  the  above  case  having  been  laid  be- 
fore the  Secretary  of  War,  for  the  decision  of  the  President,  are 
approved  •  but  in  consideration  of  the  mitigfiting  circumstances 
in  the  case,  and  the  recommendationa  on  file,  the  sentence  of  the 
Court  is  rernitted,  and  Asst.  Surg.  Lockhart  will  return  to  duty. 

VIII.  Before  the  General  Court  Martial,  convened  at  Jlich- 
mond,  Va.,  by  virtue  of  Special  Orders,  No.  23,  current  series, 
Head  Quarters  Department  of  Henrico,  was  arraigned  and  tried: 

Capt.  W.  S.  Reed,  commanding  the  President's  Guard,  on  tho 
following  Chargog : 


110 

CHARoe  Ist — Conduct  unbecoming  an  oflScer  and  a  gentleman. 
Charge  2d— Violation  of  the  14th  Article  of  War. 
Charge  3d — Violation  of  the  42d  Article  of  War. 
Charge  4th — Violation  of  orders. 

The  Specifications  are  omitted,  being  numerous,  and  of  mere 
detail. 

FINDING. 

Of  the  1st  Specification  of  the  1st  Charge,  Kot  Guilty. 
Of  the  2d  Specification  of  the  1st  Charge,  Guilty. 

Of  the  3d  Specification  of  the  1st  Charge,  Guilty, 

but  attach  no  criminality  thereto. 
Of  the  4th  Specification  of  the  1st  Charge,  Guilty.  ^ 

Of  the  5th  Specification  of  the  1st  Charge,  Not  Guilty. 

Of  the  1st  Charge,  ^  Not  Guilty, 

but  guilty  of  unofficerlike  and  improper  conduct. 

Of  the  Specification  of  the  2d  Cliarge,  Not  Guilty. 

Of  the  2d  Charge,  Not  Guilty. 

Of  the  Specification  of  the  3d  Charge,  Not  Guilty. 

"  Of  the  3d  Charge,  ^  Not  Guilty. 

Of  the  1st  Specification  of  the  4th  Charge,  Guilty. 

.    Of  the  2d  Specification  of  the  4th  Charge,  Guilty. 

^    Of  the  3d  Specification  of  the  4th  Charge,  Guilty. 

Of  the  4th  Charge,  Guilty. 

SENTENCE. 

To  be  dismissed  the  service. 

IX.  The  proceedings  in, the  above  case  having  been  laid  before 
the  Secretary  of  War,  for  the  decision  of  the  President,  are  ap- 
proved;  but  in  consideration  of  some  mitigating  circumstances, 
the  sentence  is  commuted  to  suspension  from  rank,  pay  and 
emoluments,  for  ten  days. 

X.  Before  the  Military  Court  attached  to  Lieut.  Gen.  Polk's 
Corps,  vpas  arraigned  and  tried  : 

Second  Lieut.  H.  J.  Ballentine,  47th  Teun.  Regiment,  on  the 
following  Charge : 

Charge — Violation  of  the  81st  Article  of  War. 
Specification — Charges   that  the   accused  did  permit  a    num- 
ber of  prisoners  to  leave  the  guard  house,  and  go  to  their  respec- 
tive quarters  to  sleep  ;  which  resulted  in  the  escape  of  one  of 
them. 

finding. 
Of  the  Specification,  Guilty. 

Of  the  Charge,  Guilty. 


Ill 

SENTENCE. 

To  be  dismissed  the  service. 

XI.  The  proceedings  in  this  case  havino;  been  laid  before  the 
Secretary  of  War,  for  the  decision  of  the  President,  are  approved; 
but  in  consideration  of  the  offence  a^^ainst  military  hiw,  as 
shovpn  by  the  evidence,  beino;  in  this  case  rather  an  indiscretion 
than  a  crime,  and  of  the  distinjiuished  gaUantry  of  Lieut.  Bal- 
lantine  at  the  battles  of  Shiloh,  Richmond,  Kentucky,  and  Mur- 
freesboro',  upon  the  recommendation  of  the  Court,  and  of  his 
Commanding  General,  the  sentence  is  remitted,  and  Lieut.  Bal- 
lentine  will  return  to  duty. 

XIT.  Before  a  Military  Court  attached  to  Lieut.  General  W.  J. 
Hardee's  Corps,  was  arraigned  and  tried  : 

•  First  Lieut.  Israel  P.  Guy,  16th  Ala.  Regiment,  on  the  follow- 
ing Charges  : 

Charge  1st — Desertion. 

Specification— \n  this,  that  Israel  P.  Guy,  First  Lieutenant 
Capt.  Netherford's  Company  E,  16th  Ala.  Regiment,  having  re- 
ceived pay  from  the  Confederate  States,  did,  on  or  about  the  23d 
day  of  December,  1862,  at  Triune,  Tenn.,  obtain  leave  to  go,  and 
was  sent  to  the  hospital  at  Chattanooga,  Tenn.,  but  instead  of  re- 
porting to  the  hospital  at  Chattanooga,  Tenn.,  went  to  his  home 
in  Franklin  county,  Ala.,  and  did  not  return  until  the  29th  day 
of  March,  1863. 

Charge  2d — Conduct  prejudicial  to  good  order  and  military 
discipline. 

The  Specification  is  omitted,  being  substantially  the  same  aa 
that  to  the  first  Charge. 

FINDING. 

Of  the  Specification  of  the  Ist  Charge,  Guilty. 

or  the  1st  Charge,  Not  Guilty 

of  desertion,  but  guilty  of  absence  without  leave. 
Of  the  Specification  of  the  2d  Charge,  Guilty. 

Of  the  2d  Charge,  Guilty. 

SENTENCE. 

To  be  dismissed  the  service.  ^ 

XIIT.  The  proceedings  ia  this  ca<?e  having  been  laid  before  the 
Secretary  of  War,  for  the  decision  of  the  President,  are  ap- 
proved ;  but  in  ouneideration  of  the  recommendation  of  his  bro- 
ther oflScer*,  and  of  the  Commanding  General,  and   their  teetimo- 


nj  to  bis  previous  good  conduct,  the  sentence  of  dismissal  from 
the  service  is  remitted,  but  not  the  forfeiture  of  pay  and  allow- 
ances during  the  term  of  his  unauthorized  absence. 

XIV.  At  a  General  Court  Martial,  convened  at  the  Head  Quar- 
ters of  Major  General  R,  II.  iVnderson's  Division,  by  virtue  of 
General  Orders,  No.  133,  of  1862,  Department  of  Northern  Vir- 
ginia, was  arraigned  and  tried: 

Private  Grif.  Nunnally,  Co.  C,  4l8t  Va.  Regiment,  on  the  fol- 
lowing Charge: 

Charge — Desertion. 
The  Specification  is  omitted. 

FINDING. 

Of  the  Specification,  Guilty. 

Of  the  Charge,  Guilty. 

SENTENCE. 

To  be  shot  to  death  with  musketry. 

XV.  The  proceedings  in  the  above  case  having  been  laid  be- 
fore the  President,  the  following  is  his  decision : 

That  in  consideration  of  facts  appearing  in  the  papers  submit- 
ted on  the  appeal  for  a  commutation  of  the  sentence,  the  sentence 
is  commuted  to  confinement  with  ball  and  chain,  to  be  kept  at 
hard  labor,  with  only  the  necessary  allowances,  and  without  pay, 
until  the  expiration  of  his  term  of  service. 

By  order.  S.  COOPER, 

Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  1  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  96.  J  Richmond,  July  8,  1863. 

I.  Soldiers  not  deemed  subjects  for  discharge  under  paragraph 
IV,  General  Orders,  No.  69,  current  series,  because  of  their  be- 
ing fit  for  service  in  the  stufi"  departments  of  the  army,  will  be 
recommended  by  the  Board  of  Examiners  to  the  General  com- 
manding the  department  or  army,  for  detail  in  the  Medical  De- 
partment, as  nurses,  guards,  ttc.,  to  relieve,  as  far  as  practicable, 
able  bodied  soldiers  fit  for  duty  in  the  field  ;  or  if  specially  fit  for 
duty  in  another  staff  department,  ihey  will  be  recommended  for 
detail  in  such  department. 

IL  Soldiers  detailed  under  these  provisions  will,  when  fit  for 
field  duty,  be  relieved  and  sent  to  their  commands. 

III.  Paragraph  X,  General  Orders,  No.  69,  current  series* 
having  in  some  instances  been  evaded,  is  so  far  amended  as  to 
prohibit  medical  officers  from  extending  leaves  of  absence  to  offi- 
cers or  furloughs  to  men.  They  cai  only  certify  to  the  disability, 
and  recommend  such  extensions. 


113 

IV.  Commutation  for  rations  to  men  upon  furlough,  will  no^ 
be  paid  until  they  rejoin  their  commands. 

V.  Rations  will  be  issued  to  discharged   men  delayed  at  way 
hospitals.  By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  ]  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen^l's  Office, 

No.  97.  J  Richmond,  July  9,  1863. 

I.  Before  a  General  Court  Martial,  convened  at  the  Camp  of 
Major  General  R.  II.  Anderson's  Division,  by  virtue  of  General 
Orders,  No.  133,  of  1^02,  from  Head  Quarters  Department  of 
Northern  Alrginia,  was  arraigned  and  tried  : 

Private  C.  Edgewortu,  Company  E,  3d  Ga.  Regiment,  upon  the 
following  Charges  ; 

Charge  \st,  -        -        Violation  of  the  52d  Article  of  War 

Charge  2d,  -        -         Disobedience  of  orders. 

(The  Specifications  being  lengthy,  are  omitted.) 

FlNJ)ING, 

Of  the  Specification  of  the  1st  Charge,       «  -  ^  Guilty. 

Of  the  1st  Charge, c  r  Guilty, 

Of  the  Specification  of  the  2d  Charge,        -  -  -  Guilty, 

Of  the  2d  Charge,      -        -        -        -        -  •  '  Guilty, 

SENTENCE. 

To  be  shot  to  death  with  muskstf-y. 

The  proceedings  in  the  above  case  having  been  laid  before  the 
Secretary  of  War,  for  the  decision  of  the  President,  the  following 
order  is  made : 

The  1st  Charge  is  improperly  stated  to  bo,  "Violation  of  the 
52d  Article  of  War."  In  consideration  of  which,  and  of  affida- 
vits tending  to  explain  the  circumstances  which  led  to  his  convic- 
tion, and  the  petition  of  the  non-commissioned  officers  and  pri- 
vates of  his  company,  of  the  officers  of  his  regiment,  and  thp 
commanding  officer  of  his  division,  bearing  testimony  to  the  gal- 
lantry displayed  by  Private  Edgeworth  at  Malvern  Hill,. where 
he  was  wounded,  and  at  the  s€cond  battle  of  Manassas,  the  sen- 
tence is  remitted. 

Private  Edgeworth  will  be  released  from  confinement,  and  re- 
turned to  duty. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
4djif(ffni  and  Jnajiector  Gcnnnl. 


114 

GENERAL  ORDERS,   ]         Adj't  and  Insp'b  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  98.  I  Richmond,  July  20,  1863. 

I.  All  white  male  residents  of  the  Confederate  States,  between 
the  a»os  of  eighteen  and  forty-five,  not  exempted  hy  law,  and  not 
already  in  the  service,  will  be  enrolled.  Persons  liable  to  enroll- 
ment may  be  enrolled  wherever  they  may  be  found. 

II.  The  1st  paragraph  of  General  Orders,  No.  86,  current  se- 
ries, is  so  amended  as  to  read  as  follows  : 

•'  Companies,  battalions  and  regiments  composed  of  persons  not 
within  the  age  of  conscription  (eighteen  and  forty-five),  will  be 
accepted  as  volunteers,  throughout  the  Confederacy,  under  the 
act  of  August  21st,  1861,  No.  220,  for  local  defence  and  special 
service."  Those  persons  belonging  to  such  organizations,  who 
are  of  conscript  age,  and  neither  exempted  by-law  nor  already  in 
the  service,  will  be  discharged  and  reported  to  the  bureau  of  con- 
scription tor  enrollment. 

III.  The  following  regulation  will  he  in  addition  to  those  here- 
tofore published  in  regard  to  substitutes: 

Hereafter  every  person  furnishing  a  substitute  in  accordance 
with  existing  regulations,  shall  become  liable  to  and  be  immedi- 
ately enrolled  for  military  duty,  upon  the  loss  of  the  services  of 
the  substitute  furnished  by  him,  from  any  cause  other  than  the 
casualties  of  war.  By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  ]  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  99.  J  Richmond,  July  21,  1863. 

I.  The  following  schedules  of  prices  for  articles  named  there- 
in, adopted  by  commissioneis  appointed  pursuant  to  law,  for  the 
State  of  Virginia,  are  announced  for  the  information  of  all  con- 
cerned ;  and  the  special  attention  of  officers  and  agents  of  the 
government  is  directed  thereto  : 

Richmond,  July  18,  1863. 
Hon.  -Jas.  A.  Seddon,  Sec'y  of  War. 

Sir — The  Commissioners  appointed  under  section  6th,  of  the 
bill  recently  passed  by  the  Confederate  Congress,  regulating  im- 
pressments, being  required  to  agree  upon  and  publish  a  schedule 
of  prices  every  two  months,  or  oftener,  if  they  should  deem  it 
proper,  in  accordance  with  the  foregoing  requisition,  we  respect- 
fully lay  before  you  the  following  schedules  of  prices,  marked  A 
and  B,  for  the  ensuing  month.    Owing  to  the  difficulty  of  obtain^ 


ilf) 


ing  satisfactory  infornmtlon  ag  to  pork,  we  Jiave  postponed  the 
appraisement  till  our  next  assessment. 

Mr.  Wm.  B.  Harrison  was  a;2;iun  invited  to  act  as  third  com- 
missioner; and  it  is  proper  to  add  that  the  schedules  of  appraise- 
ment received  the  unanimous  approval  of  the  commissioners. 

The  following  schedules  present  the  maximum  prices  to  be  paid 
for  the  articles  appraised,  at  all  cities  and  usual  places  of  sale,  and 
when  impressed  elsewhere,  the  same  prices  are  to  be  paid  elsewhere, 
less  the  cost  of  transpitrtation  to  the  city  or  usual  place  of  sale  to 
which  the  article  would  go  ordinarily  for  sale  from  that  neigh- 
borhoc/d,  or  less  the  cost  of  transportation  to  the  point  at  which 
the  government  needs  the  article,  and  wishes  it  to  be  sent :  Pro- 
vided, that  in  no  case  the  amount  deducted  for  transportation  as 
above  shall  exceed  25  cents  per  bushel  for  grain,  and  25  cents  per 
cwt.  for  long  forage,  flour,  bacon,  iron,  &c.  In  addition  to  the 
established  price  of  transportation,  the  government  to  pay  all 
legal  tolls,  and,  where  farmers 'cannot  procure  nails  for  baling 
forage,  government  to  furnish  the  same  at  cost,  which  will  be  de- 
ducted from  the  established  price  of  baling: 

Schedule  A. 


ARTICLE. 

H 

•< 
& 

DESCRIPTION. 

I             QUANTITY. 

1  PRICE. 

i 

1    Wheat, 

Prime, 

White, 

Pr  bush  of     60  lbs 

'$  5  00 

2    Flour, 

Good, 

Superfine, 

Prbarrelof  196  lbs. 

'  25  00 

3  Corn, 

Prime. 

White, 

Pr  bush  of     56  lbs. 

:     4  00 

4  Unslielled  corn, 

(I 

k( 

56  lbs. 

3  95 

5  Corn  meal, 

Good, 

50  lbs 

4  20 

6   Rye, 

Prime, 

"        56  lbs. 

3  20 

7  Cleaned  oats. 

i( 

32  lbs. 

2  00 

8  Wheat  bran, 

Good, 

*'         "        17  lbs. 

50 

9  Shorts, 

( ( 

"        22  lbs. 

70 

10   Brown  stuff, 

(( 

"         "        28  lbs. 

90 

11    Ship  stuff. 

(( 

37  lbs. 

1  40 

12   Baron, 

i( 

Hog  round, 

Per  pound, 

1  00 

13  Salt  pork, 

(( 

u 

1  00 

14   Lard, 

k( 

(« 

1  00 

15   Horses, 

Istcl's 

Artillery,  &c. 

Av'ire  price  pr  head 

350  00 

16   Wool, 

Fair, 

Washed, 

Per  pound, 

3  00 

17   Wool, 

Cl 

Unwashed, 

(. 

2  00 

18   Peas, 

Good, 

Per  bush  of  60  lbs. 

4  00 

19   Beans, 

(( 

u                           u        u 

4  00 

20   Potatoes, 

u 

Irish, 

" 

4  00 

21    Pdtjioes, 

« 

Sweet, 

i( 

•  5  00 

22   Onions, 

u 

u 

5  00 

93  Dried  peache», 

,(       ' 

Pealed, 

of  38  lbs.' 

8  00 

lUi 


Schedule  A.— Continued. 


>> 

£ 

ARTICLE. 

►J 

< 

DBSCaiPTIOK. 

QpANTJT?. 

PSICB. 

24  Dried  peaches. 

Good, 

Unpealed, 

Per  bush  of  38  lbs. 

$  4  5Q 

25   Tried  apples, 

ii 

Pealed, 

"       '    of  28  lbs. 

3  00 

26  Hay,  baled, 

Timothy  or 

u 

clover, 

Per  100  pounds, 

3  00 

27  Hay,  baled, 

Orchard  or 

u 

herd  ^rass, 

(t                 u 

3  00 

28  Hay,  unbaled, 

Orchard  or 

i! 

herd  gr^ss. 

a                I. 

2  70 

29  Sh'foats,  baled, 

<( 

a                 «( 

4  00 

30  Sh'foats,  unb'd, 

U 

((                         (C 

3  70 

31  Blade  fodder. 

baled, 

(( 

U                         {( 

3  00 

32  Blade  fodder, 

unbaled, 

u 

«(                  i< 

2  7Q 

33  Shucks,  baled, 

u 

(i                 <t 

2  00 

34  Shucks,  unb'd, 

a 

U                       it 

1  70 

35  Wheat  straw, 

baled. 

u 

H                   H 

1  00 

36  Wheat  straw, 

unbaled. 

(C 

a                  (I 

70 

37  Pasturage, 

Good, 

Interior, 

Per  bead  pr  month, 

3  00 

38         " 

Sup'r, 

u 

((                   a 

4  00 

39         " 

1st  r'te 

u 

U                       (( 

5  00 

40         " 

Good, 

Near  ciliee, 

((                 t( 

5  00 

41         *• 

Sup'r, 

kk 

(»                 t( 

6  00 

42 
43 

44 
45 
46 
47 
48 
49 
50 
51 
52 
53 
54 
55 
56 
57 
08 


Salt, 

Soap, 

Candies, 

Vinegar, 

Whiskey, 

Sugar, 

Molasses, 

Rice, 

Coffee, 

Tea, 

Vinegar, 

Pig  iron. 

Pig  iron. 

Pig  iron, 

Bfoom  iron. 

Smith's  iron, 


1st  r'te 
Good, 


Talluw, 

Cider, 

Trade, 

Brown, 

New  Orleans, 

Rio, 
Trade, 

iManufact'd, 
No.  1  quality, 
Ko.  2       " 
No.  3       " 

Round,  plate 
»Bd  ]mt, 


Per  bush  of  50  lbs.! 
IPer  pound,  I 

Per  gallon, 


Per  pound, 
Per  gallon, 
Per  poujjd, 


Per  gallon, 
Per  ton, 


7  00 

5  00 
40 
1  00 
1  00 
3  00 
1  00 

8  00 
20 

3  00 
7  00 
50 
|25  00 
110  00 
100  00 
ISO  00 

tip')  on 


ir 


ScHBDULE  A — Continued, 


H 

H 

AltTICLE. 

P 

DESCRIPTION. 

QUANTITY. 

TRICB. 

59  Leather, 

Good, 

Harness, 

Per  pound, 

$  2  60 

60         '• 

•     u 

Sole, 

u 

2  40 

61          " 

u 

Upper, 

u 

2  80 

62  Bejf  cattle, 

u 

Gross  weight, 

Per  100  pounds. 

16  00 

63 

Sup'r, 

U                       (( 

u                 u 

18  00 

64 

Ut  r'te 

u               u 

((               (( 

20  00 

65  Sheep, 

Fair, 

Per  head, 

30  00 

66  Army  woollen 

cloih,*iJ  ^d. 

Good, 

10  oz.  per  yd. 

Per  yard, 

4  50 

67  Army  woollen 

Pro  rata  at  to 

cloth, 

tt 

greater  or  less 

Width  or  weight, 

6S  Army  woollen 

cloth,  6  4  yd. 

u 

2C  oz.  per  yd. 

Per  yard, 

9  00 

69  Army  woollen 

Pro  rata  as  to 

cloth, 

(( 

g;reater  or  less 

Width  or  weight, 

70  Flannels,          f 

u 

6  oz.  per  yd. 

Per  yard, 

3  00 

71  Cotton  shirt'g,  1 

(( 

4^  yds.  to  lb. 

(( 

42 

72         ^'  -       "        I 

(C 

3|  yds.  to  lb. 

u 

50 

73  Cotton  sheet- 

itij^s,  4-4, 

(( 

3  yds.  to  lb. 

u 

60 

74  Cotton  ozna- 

burgs,  ^, 

u 

6  oz.  per  lb. 

" 

60 

75  Cotton  ozna- 

burgs,  -g, 

(( 

8  02.  per  lb. 

u 

70 

70  Cotton  drills,  |, 

3  yds.  to  lb. 

(( 

70 

77  Cotton  shirting 

stripes, 

u 

3  yds.  to  lb. 

u 

70 

78  Cotton  tent 

cloths, 

u 

10  oz.  to  yd. 

(( 

87 

79  Cotton  warps, 

u 

Per  pound. 

I   63 

80  Army  shoes, 

a 

Per  pair, 

10  00 

81   Shoe  thread, 

(( 

Per  pound, 

2  00 

82  Wool  soi^ks  for 

men. 

u 

Per  pair, 

1   25 

E.    W.    11 U HARD. 

Robert  Gibbonet, 
Wm.  B.  Harrison. 


118 


Schedule  B. — Hire  of  Labor,  Teams,  Wagons  and  Drivers. 


9. 
10. 
11. 
12. 
13. 
14. 


Baling  long  forage, 

Shelling  and  bagging  corn,  sacks   i\ar- 

nished  by  the  goverjiment, 
Hauling,  .  ,  .  . 

Hauling  grain, 
Hire    of    two-horse    team,  wagon  and 

driver,  rations  furnished  by  owner,  . 
Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 

government,     .  .  .  . 

Hiri   of   four-horse   team,   wagon    and 

driver,  rations  furnished  by  owner,  . 
Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 

government,     .  .  .  . 

Hire   of   six-horse    team,    wagon    and 

driver,  rations  furnished  by  owner,    . 
Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 

government,     .  .  .  . 

Hire  of   laborer,  rations   furnished   by 

owner,  .  .  .  . 

Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 

government,     .  .  .  . 

Hire   of    same,    rations    furnished    by 

owner,  .  .  .  . 

Hire  of  same,  rations  famished  by  the 

government. 


Per  100  lbs. 


5G  " 
cwt.  p. 
bush 

day, 


mile, 


month, 


PRICE. 

$ 

80 

05 
06 
08 

10 

00 

5 

00 

13 

00 

6 

50 

16 

00 

8 

00 

2 

00 

1 

25 

40 

00 

:  20 

00 

Bj  order. 


E.    "W.    IIUBARD, 
IIOBERT    GiBBONET, 

Wm.  B.  Harrison. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjuiani  and  Inspector  General, 


119 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  ]  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office. 

No.  100.  ]  Richmond,  July  23,  1863. 

I.  Before  a  General  Court  Martial,  convened  in  the  City  of 
Riohmoiid,  by  virtue  of  Special  Orders,  No.  23,  current  series, 
from  Head  Quarters  Department  of  Henrico,  was  arraigned  and 
tried  : 

Private  Z.  M.  Kent,  3d  Company,  Battalion  of  Washington 
Artillery,  on^the  following  charges  : 

Charge  \st,        •        -  Violation  of  the  20th  Article  of  War. 

Charge  2rf,         -        •  Violation  of  the  52d  Article  of  War. 

FINDING. 

Of  the  Specification  of  the  1st  Charge,       -        -        -  Guilty. 

Of  the  Ist  Charge, Guilty. 

Of  the  Specification  of  the  2d  Charge,        -         -         -  Guilty. 

Of  the  2d  Charge, Guilty. 

SENTENCE. 

To  confinement  at  hard  labor  for  two  years,  in  such  penitentia- 
ry as  maybe  designated  by  the  Commander  of  the  Department 
of  Henrico,  and  to  close  confinement  until  such  designation  ia 
made. 

The  proceedings  in  the  foregoing  case  having  been  laid  before 
the  Secietary  of  War,  for  the  decision  of  ^le  President,  the  fol- 
lowing order  is  made : 

Neither  the  20th  nor  the  52d  Article  of  War  prescribes  any  duty 
to  be  performed  or  any  act  to  be  avoided,  but  simply  announce 
punishments  to  be  inflicted  for  certain  oflfences.  The  charges  are 
improperly  laid.  The  proceedings  are  therefore  set  aside.  Pri- 
vate Z.  M.  Kent  will  be  released  and  returned  to  duty. 

II.  Before  a  General  Court  Martial,  convened  at  Chattanooga, 
Tennessee,  by  virtue  of  Special  Orders,  No.  69,  from  Head  Quar- 
ters Army  of  Tennessee,  was  arraigned  aud  tried: 

Capt  G.  D.  Mitchell,  A.  Q.  M.,  upon  the  following  Charges, 
viz: 

Charge  1st — Conduct  to  the  prejudice  of  good  order  and  military 
discipline. 

Specif  caiion  \st-  -In  this,  that  he  the  said  Capt.  G,  D,  Mitobell, 


120 

A.  Q.  M.  (hospital  Q.  M.  at  Ringgold,  Ga  ,)  failed  to  supply  wood 
for  tlie  use  of  the  hospitals  at  Ringgold,  Ga.  AH  this  at  or  near 
Ringgold,  Ga.,  between  the  12th  October  and  20th  November 
1862 

Specification  2d — In  this,  that  he  the  said  Capt.  G.  D.  Mitchell, 
A.  Q.  M.  (hospital  Q.  M.  at  Ringgold,  Ga.,)  failed  to  procure  ne- 
groes as  servants  for  the  hospitals  at  Ringgold,  Ga.,  either  by 
hiring  or  impressing,  as  required  by  an  order  from  Gen.  Bragg; 
which  states,  "  that  if  negroes  cannot  be  hired,  they  must  be 
pressed  into  service — free  as  well  as  slaves."  All  this  at  or  near 
Ringgold,  Ga.,  between  the  20th  d.ay  of  August  1862  ^nd  the  15th 
January  1863. 

Charge  2d,        -        ,        -        -        .        Absence  without  leave. 

Speetjicaiion  \st — In  this,  that  he  the  said  Capt.  G.  D.  Mitchell. 
A.  Q  M,  (hospital  Q.  M.  at  Ringgold,  Ga.,)  did  absent  himself 
from  his  post,  without  authority,  for  three  days.  All  this  at  or 
near  Ringgold,  Ga.,  between  the  7th  October  and  the  12th  Octo- 
ber 1862. 

Specification  2d — In  this,  that  he  the  said  Capt.  G  D.  Mitchell, 
A.  Q.  M.  (hospital  Q.  M.  at  Ringgold,  Ga.,)  did  absent  himself 
from  his  post,  without  authority,  for  two  days.  All  this  at  Ring- 
gold, Ga.,  between  the  23d  and  26th  December  1862. 

Charge  Zd,  Conduct  unbecoming  an  offi-^er  and  a  gentleman. 

Specification  l*^— In  this,  that  the  said  Capt.  G.  D.  Mitchell, 
A.  Q.  M  ,  was  drunk  in  the  streets  of  Ringgold,  Oa.,  on  or  about 
the  16th  November,  1862. 

Specification  2d — In*thi8,  that  the  said  Capt.  G.  D.  Mitchell, 
A.  Q.  M.,  did  walk  through  the  streets  of  Ringgold,  Ga.,  using 
profane  language,  and  declaring  that  he  could  whip  any  man  who 
had  any  thing  against  him,  or  words  to  that  effect. 

Specification  Sd — In  this,  that  the  said  Capt.  G.  D.  Mitchell, 
A.  Q.  M.,  did  make  charges  and  statements  to  Surgeon  A.  J. 
Ford,  p.  A.  C.  S.,  in  writing,  hereto  annexed,  against  Surgeon 
Francis  Thornton,  P.  A.  C.  S.,  all  of  which  are  false.  All  this 
at  Ringgold,  Ga.,  on  or  about  from  the  16th  to  the.  19th  day  of 
November,  1862. 

PINDINO. 

Of  the  1st  Specification  of  Ist  Charge,       -        -  .        Guilty, 

but  attach  no  criminality  thereto. 

Of  the  2d  Specification  of  the  1st  Charge,          -  -        Guilty, 

but  attach  no  criminality  thereto. 

Of  the  Ist  Charge, Not  Guilty. 

Of  the  1^'t  Speoiacation  of  the  2d  Charge,           •  Guilty. 


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Of  the  2(i  Specification  of  the  2d  Charge,  -  -  Guilty. 

Of  the  2(1  Charge,        -         -         -         -  -  Guilty. 

'Of  the  1st  Specitioation.of  the  3d  Charge,  -         Not  Guilty. 

Of  the  2d  Specification  of  the  3d  Charge,  -  -  Guilty. 

Of  the  3d  Specification  of  tho  3d  Charge,    -  -  -Guilty. 

except  as  to  the  words  "  all  of." 

Of  the  3d  Charge,        -.---.  Guilty. 

SENTENCE. 

To  be  cashiered. 

The  proceedings  in  the  above  case  having  been  laid  before  the 
Secretary  of  War,  for  the  order  of  the  President,  the  followino- 
decision  is  made  : 

The  conduct  of  Capt.  G.  D.  Mitchell,  as  exhibited  by  the  record, 
was  certainly  reprehensible,  but  does  not  seem  to  have  justified 
the  findir.g  and  senrence. 

Conduct  may  be  prejudicial  to  good  order  and  military  disci- 
pline, and  deserve  punishment,  even   to  the  extent  of  dismissal 
without  being  scandalous  or  disgraceful,  as  is  implied  by  the  de'- 
'scription  •*  unbecoming  nn  officer  and  a  gentleman.'^ 

The  sentence  is  remitted. 

HI.  Before  the  Military  Court  attached  to  the  command  of 
General  Beauregard,  was  arraigned  and  tried  : 

Capt^J.  J.  Maguire,  Company  II,  Aiken's  Regiment  Partisan 
Rangers,  on  the  following  Charges  : 

{Charge  1.9^— Conduct  highly  unofficerlike  and  prejudicial  to  good 
order  and  military  discipline. 

•Charge  2d,      -        -        -        Knowingly  making  a  false  muster. 

FINDING.  • 

Of  the  1st  Specification  of  the  1st  Charge,  -  -*  Guilty. 

Of  the  2d  Specification  of  the  1st  Charge,  -  -  Guilty* 

'Of  the  1st  Charge,     -        -         -      '-        .  '     -  .  Guilty. 

Of  the  Specification  of  the  2d  Oharge,       -  -  -  Guilty 

Of  the  2d  Charge,      -        -        -        -        .  .  .  Guilty.* 

SENTENCE, 

To  be  cashiered.  • 

The  proceedings  in  the  above  case'  having  been  laid  before  the 
Secretary  of  Wnr  for  the  final  order  of  the  President,  the  follow- 
ing decision  is  made  thereon : 

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•  That  in  consideration  of  the  inexperience  of  CJaptr  Map:uire  is 
matters  of  military  detail,  and  of  his  good  character,  on  the  re- 
commendation of  the  members  of  the  Military  C-urt,  before 
whom  he  was  tried,  and  of  his  commanding  officer,  the  sentence 
is  remitted,  and  he  will  be  released  from  arrest  and  return  to 
duty. 

3j  ordero 

S.  €00?EE, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  GeneraL 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  |  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  1§1.  I  Richmond,  July  25,  1863. 

I.  Before  the  Military  Courl  attached  to  the  Corpa  of  Lieut^ 
Gen.  Ewell,  was  arraigned  and  tried : 

Lieut.  J.  B.  Co¥NT:'gs^,2l3t  Georgia  Regiment,  on  the  following 
Charges  ; 

Charge  \st,        ,        -        -        .        -  Drunkenness  on  duty. 

Charge  2ci — Conduct  io  the  prej-udics  of  good  order  and  loailitarj 
discipline. 

FINDING. 

Of  the  Speciication  of  the  1st  Charge,      -        ,       -  Guilty, 

Of  the  Ist  Charge,     - Guilty, 

Of  the  Specification  of  the  2d  Charge,       ...  Gui  ty. 

Of  the  2d  Charge,      -        -        =        -        ^        .        -  Guilty, 

*  SENTENCa^ 

%  be  cashiered. 

I'l.  The  proceedings  in  the  above  case  having  been  laid  before 
^he  Secretary  of  War,  for  the  decision  of  the  President,  are  ap- 
proved ;  but  in  consideration  of  the  recommendation  of  the  offi- 
cers of  his  regiment,  and  the  brigade,  division  and  departmental 
commanders,  and  their  testimony  to  the  previous  good  conduct  of 
the  accused,  and  their  assurance  that  a  repetition  of  the  offence 
Is  not  fo  be  expected,  the  senSenoe  is  remitted,  and  Lieut.  Coun- 
m%  will  resume  his  sword. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 


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GENERAL  ORDERS,  ]         Ad^'t  and  Lvsp'r  Gen'l's  Off^ck, 
No,  102.  j  Richmond,  July  26,  1863, 

I.  General  Orders,  No.  36,  current  series,  is  hereby  revoked. 

II.  The  Superintendent  of  the  Nitre  and  Mining  Bureau  i« 
tiuthorized  te  puy,  from  the  funds  appropriated  for  the  expenses  of 
«aid  bureau,  the  actual  traveling  expenses  of  officers  of  the  same 
on  duty,  under  orders,  in  lieu  of  any  commutation  for  the  time, 
^i  rations  and  forage. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  Gtneral,   • 


GENERAL  ORDERS,]  Adj't  and  Insp*r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  103.  ]  Michmojid,  Jtdy  27,  1863. 

T.  When  tlvs  supply  of  salt  is  adequate,  and  fresh  meat  is  issued 
oftener  than  thrice  a  week,  the  salt  ration  will  bo  fixed  at  throe 
quarts  to  the  hundred  rations. 

II.  Commanding  officers  have  no  authority  to  alter  or  fix  the 
ration  established  by  the  Secretary  of  War. 

III.  Quartermasters  at  supply  depots  will  respect  the  requisi- 
tions made  by  quartermasters  receiving  taxea  in  kind,  for  grain 
«ftcks. 

By  order, 

S.  COOPER. 
■Adjutant  and  Inspeclor  General., 


GENERAL  ORDERS,)  Adj't  and  Insp'r  GsK't's  Opficr, 

No.  104.  \  Richmond,  July  28,  1863. 

I.  Officers  of  en2:ineer  troops  having  been  selected  for  appoint- 
ment, with  special  reference  to  their  qualitications  as  engineers, 
^ill  be  respected  as  such,  and  their  duties,  when  serving  in  the 
field,  camp  or  cantonment,  will  enibraee  all  that  are  enumerated 
in  para;jraph  III,  General  Orders,  No.  90,  current  series,  '*  as  th« 
duties  of  officers  of  engineers  serving  with  armies  of  the  Con- 
federate StAtes." 


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IT.  On  the  marcTi  engineer  troops  wilT  serve  as  pioneers,  coir-' 
structing  and  repairing  roads  and  bridges,  and  removing  impedi- 
ments to  the  advance  of  our  forces,  or  delaying  the  enemy,  by 
breaking  up  roads,  destroying  bridges,  and  otherwise  obstructing- 
his  communications.  They  vrill  also  be  employed  in  making  ra- 
pid reconnoissancss  and  surveys  of  the  country  occupied  or  march- 
ed over  by  the  army;  preparing  sketches  and  maps  of  the  roads 
and  topographical  features  ;  laying  oat  caraps,  and  entrenching^ 
military  positions.  During  battle  they  will  be  held  in  reserve, 
and  used  as  circumstances  may  demand,  either  in:  their  special 
duties,  or  as  infantry.  Under  the  command. of  tJieir  officers,  they 
may  be  employed  in  the  construction  of  ovens  for  baking  bread, 
and  other  vyorks  requiring  mechanical  skill,  but  not  on  mere 
police  duty,  or  the  like,  unless  connected  immediately  with  their 
own  organization  :  nor  are  they  to  be  employed  altogether  on 
mere  fatigue  service — but,  once  instructed  in  the  duties  of  the 
engineer  soldier,  they  will  be  frequently  empltiyed  in  laying  ou'j 
works,  and  also  in  aiding  and  directing  the  labors  of  other  troops 
detailed  for  their  construction. 

III.  Whenever  practicable,  engineer  troops  will  be  drilled  and 
instructed  in  the  duties  of  engineer  soldiers,  by  battalions  and' 
regiments — and  to  this  end,  all  the  companies  serving  -with  an< 
army  will  be  habitually  kept  together:  but  such  temporary  as- 
signments of  companies  to  divisions  or  otherwise,  will  be  made. 
by  the  Commanding  General,  as  will,  in  his  Judgment,  best  com- 
part with  the  interests  of  the  service.  The  Ordnance  department 
will  furnish  light  arms  to  these  troops  ;  bu-t  until  they  can  b& 
supplied,  infantry  muskets  will  be  used.  Entrenching  tools- and 
other  implements  will  be  issued  by  the  Engineer  department. 

IV.  Each  compan-y  of  the  engineer  troops  shall  be  provided  by 
the  Quartermaster's  department  with  at  least  two  wagons  and^ 
teams  of  fiiur  animals  each,  for  traHsportation  Oi"  company  equi- 
page, entrenching  tools  and  other  implements;  one  ambulance- 
or  other  light  vehicle,  with  a  team  of  two  horses,  for  carryin^v 
surveying  instruments,  stationery,  maps,  drawing  boards  and 
other  fixtures;  an^-  twelve  additional  horses,  with  saddles,  bri- 
dles and  harness,  to  be  used  by  the  offir-ers  and  non-commission- 
ed cfiicers  in  making  ra-pid  examinations  of  country,  or  for  haul- 
ing materials  needed  for  prompt  repair  and  construction  of 
brid*^es,  roads  and  other  works. 

V.  When  officers  of  the  corps  of  engineers  and  of  engineer 
troops  are  engaged  on  the  same  servke,  thasenior  officer  present 
shall  control  in  all  questions  relatitig  to  the  location  a^d  constrnc- 
tiwu  of  defences,  and  to  engineering  works  generally  connected 
il^ith  the  army,  unless  for  specialj-easons  it  be  decided  othervvis^ 


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by  the  commanding  officer :  but  pIiouM  tlie  recommendations  and 
plans  of  a  junior  officer  be  adopted,  the  directions  of  the  com- 
mander will  not  be  communicated  through  him  to  the  senior  en- 
gineer officer,  whether  of  the  corps  or  troops,  but  through  tho 
usual  channel  of  orders.  Officers  of  the  corps  of  engineers  w  . 
not  assume  the  command  of  engineer  troops.  In  all  cases  ih:y 
will  be  under  the  convmand  of  their  own  officers. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


OENERxVL  ORDERS,  ]  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Geni/s  Office, 

No.  105.  j  liichmond,  July  29,  18G3. 

I.  The  following  act  and  regulations  are  published  for  the  infor- 
mation of  the  army  : 

J^n  olct  to  amend  an  act  entitled  an  act  to  provide  for  ati  increase  of  the 
Quartermaster'' s  and  Commsssarij  Departtnents,  approved  Fcbruaiy, 
I5th,  1S62. 

"  The  Go'ngrefis  of  ike  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enacts 
That  the  act  entitled  an  act  to  provide  for  an  increase  of  the 
quartermaster's  and  commissary  departments,  approved  February 
fifteenth,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty- two,  be  and  the  same  is 
hereby  amended,  by  striking  out  the  proviso  at  the  end  of  the 
same,  and  inserting  in  lieu  tliereof  the  following:  *  Provided, 
th;it  no  quartermaster,  assistant  quartermaster,  commissary  or 
assistant  commissary  be  authorized  to  employ  as  a  clerk  any  one 
liable  to  military  service:  and  the  commanding  officer  of  quarter- 
masters, assistant  quartermasters,  commissaries  or  Assistant  com- 
iiiissaries,  may  detail  from  the  ranks  under  his  command  such 
fierson  or  persons  as  may  be  necessary  for  service  in  the  offices 
of  said  quartermastei-s,  assistant  quartermasters,  commissaries 
and  assistant  C(}mmissaries  :  provided,  that  only  disabled  soldiers 
phall  be  so  d.etailed  while  one  cim  be  found  for  such  service."' 
[Approved  April  22d,  1803.] 

IL  To  carry  into  efifeet  the  provisions  of  the  preceding  act, 
officers'of  the  quartermaster's  and  commissary  departments  in 
the  field,  will  report  to  th«  Commanding  General  of  the  army  or 
department  the  number  and  Karnes" of  the  clerks  employed  by 
each,  and  whether  th^y  are  soldiers  or  citizens.  If  soldiers,  un- 
less their  disability  be  shown  by  certificates  of  medical  examin- 
ing boards,  they  will  be  promptly  returned  to  their  respective 


companies.  If  citizens,  exemption  from  service  must  he  exhibited, 
or  they  will  be  reported  to  the  proper  enrulliug  officer  fur  con- 
scription. 

III.  Similar  reports  will  be  made  by  officers  of  the  quarter- 
master's and  commissary  departments  at  posts,  through  the  chiefs 
of  their  respective  departments,  to  this  office. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  ]  Adj't  ans  Insp't  Gsn'l's  Offige^ 

No.    106.  )  Michmond,  July  30,  1863. 

I.  Before  a  General  Court  Martial,  convened  at  Shelbyville,. 
Tennessee,  by  virtue  of  Special  Orders,  No.  134,  paragraph  VII, 
current  series,  from  Head  Quarteis  Army  of  Tennessee,  was  ar- 
raigned and  tried: 

Private  John  Whithead,  Company  F,  16th  Tenn.  Regiment^ 
on  tha  following  Charge : 

CiiAKGE — Desertitu. 

FINDING. 

Of  the  Specification,         ...»  Guilty. 

Of  the  Charge,      .  .  .  .  .  Guilty. 

SENTENCE, 

To  be  shot  to  death  with  musketry. 

II.  The  proceedings  in  the  above  case  having  been  laid  before 
the  Secretary  of  War,  for  the  decision  of  the  President,  it  is 
ordered,  upon  the  application  of  the  Cornmaading  General,  nnd 
upon  the  sratenient  5>iade  by  the  Medical  Dire<nor  of  tlie  Army 
of  Tennessee,  that  the  sentence  he  remitted.  Private  Whiiliead 
will  be  released  and  returned  to  duty. 

III.  The  proceedings  in  the  case  of  Private  L.  II.  Toole,  Com- 
pany E,  3d  Ga.  Regiment,  convicted  before  a  General  Court 
Martial,  convened  at  the  camp  of  Major  General  R.  II.  Anderson, 
by  virtue  of  General  Orders,  No.  133,  of  1862,  from  Head 
Quarters  of  Northern  Virginia,  of  abanaoning  his  company  and 
regiment,  vhen  on  picket  duty,  and  runninjr  away,  while  the 
ene:ri^7  was  bombarding  the  town  of  Fredericksburg,  on  the  11th 
December,  1862,  and  sentenced  to  be  shot  to  death  by  musketry, 
having  been  laid  before,  the  Secretary  of  War,  for  the  decision  of 


tho  President,  it  is  ordered,  that  !n  conptderation  of  the  fiddi- 
tioiial  evidence  of  p^ood  conduct,  referred  to  by  the  General  of 
division,  the  previous  o:;allant  services  and  zoal  of  the  prisoner, 
together  with  the  punishment  he  has  already  sufi'ered,  the  sen- 
tence is  remitted,  with  the  hope  that  this  lesson  will  prevent  a 
recurrence  of  like  misconduct.  The  prisoner  will  be  released  and 
returned  to  duty. 


By  order. 


S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  |         Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.   107.  J  Richmond,  August  1,  1863. 

I.  When  conscripts  have  been  sent  to  camps  of  instruction,  or 
to  re;i;iments  in  the  field,  after  })eing  pronounced,  by  the  district 
examining  boards  established  under  the  law,  fit  for  military  ser- 
vice, they  can  thereafter  bo  discharged  only  in  accordance  with 
the  regulations  prescribed  for  the  discharge  of  soldiers  from  the 
army. 

II.  In  case  there  is  reason  to  believe  that  any  conscripts  sent  to 
camps  of  instruction  are  disqualified,  the  commandant  will  order 
a  medical  examination,  and  forward  a  report,  fully  settinj;  forth 
the  grounds  of  disability,  if  found  to  exist,  through  the  Bureau 
of  Conscription,  to  the  Surgeon  General,  for  his  approval,  and 
for  final  action  by  the  War  Department. 

III.  Regimental  oflBcers  have  no  discretion  but  to  receive  and 
take  up  on  their  rolls  conscripts  duly  assigned  them  under  the 
provisions  of  General  Orders,  No.  82,  of  180*2,  from  this  ofiice. 
The  question  of  discharge  arises  subsequently. 

ly.  The  conpensation  of  surgeons  employed  under  the  act  of 
Congress,  approved  October  11,  1862,  to  examine  persons  enrol- 
led for  military  duty,  will  be  $5  per  day  for  each  day  they  are 
actually  engaged  in  making  such  examinations,  and  will  be  paid 
upon  their  certified  accounts,  by  the  Quartermaster  of  the  near- 
e:st  camp  of  instruction.  This  order  will  take  efi'ect  from  the 
20th  February  last. 

V.  General  Officers  who  are  provided  with  aids  decnmp 
allowed  by  law,  should  they  find  it  necessary  to  Accept  super- 
numerary or  Volunteer  aids,  must  only  receive  those  exempt  from 
military  service. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General, 


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GENERAL  ORDERS,  |  Adj't  and  Iifsp'E  eisN'L's  Office, 

No.  108.  J  Richmond,  August  AiJi,  1863.    . 

The  following  acts  are  published  for  the  information  of  the 
arm  J  : 

An  Act  to  provide  for  Transportation  of  Persons  who   have   been  mus' 
tered  into  the  Service  for  the  Jfar, 

"  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact, 
That  uun-conimissiimed  officers  and  privates,  who  have  been  mus- 
tered into  service  fur  tlie  war,  and  to  whom  furloughs  may  bs 
granted  for  not  more  than  sixty  days,  shall  be  entitled  to  trans- 
portation home  and  back  :  provided,  that  this  allowance  shall 
only  be  made  once  during  the  term  of  enlistment  of  such  non- 
commissioned officers  and  privates.''  [Approved  February  7, 
1863.1 

An  Act  /*  amend  an  Art  for  the  establishment   and  organization  of  a 
General  Staff  for  the  Army  of  the  Conjederate  States. 

"  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enactt 
That  from  and  after  the  passage  of  this  act,  t.  e  rank,  pay  and  al- 
lowances attached  to  the  office  of  Quartermaster  Genera'  of 
the  army  of  the  Confederate  States,  shall  be  those  of  a  Briga- 
dier General  in  the  provisional  army."  I' Approved  March  20, 
1863.J 

All  Act  to  prevent  the  absence  of  Offerers  and   Soldiers  ivithout  leave. 

"  The  Congress  of  the  Conjederate  States  of  America  do  enact, 
That  no  officer  or  soldier  of  the  army  shall  receive  pay  for  any 
period  during  which  he  may  be  absent  without  leave,  or  beyond 
the  leave  granted,  from  competent  authority,  according  to  the 
regulations  of  the  army:  provided,  that  this  restriction  shall  not 
affect  the  sick  or  wounded  in  hospitals. 

Sec.  2.  In  order  to  enforce  the  requirements  of  the  foregoing 
section,  it  is  hereby  made  the  duty  of  commanding  officers  of 
companies  to  state  upon  the  muster  and  pay  rolls  of  their  com- 
panies the  length  of  time  any  officer  or  soldier  has  been  absent 
therefron),  without  leave  of  competent  authority,  since  the  pre- 
vious payment,  when  the  deduction  of  pay  for  such  absence  will 
be  made  by  the  quartermaster  from  the  amount  otherwise  due 
the  officer  or  soldier  ;  and  any  commander  of  a  company  who 
shall  fail  to  note  such  absence  on  the  muster  and  pay  rolls  of  the 
company  shall  be  required  to  refund  to  the  government  the 
amount  forfeited  by  such  absent  oflBcer  or  soldier,  unless  it  shall 
already  have  been  received  from  the  offider  or  soldier  so  absent. 

Sec.  3.  Officers  shall  certify  upon  honor  on  their  pay  accounts 


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whether  they  have  or  have  not  been  absent,  without  leave  by 
competent  authority,  within  the  time  fur  uhich  they  claim  pay  ; 
and  if  absent  without  leave,  they  shall  state  in  their  certificates 
the  time  and  period  of  such  absences.  In  like  manner,  com- 
manding officers  of  companies  shall  certify  on  honor  on  their 
pay  accounts  that  they  have  stated  fully  and  correctly  on  the 
muster  and  pay  rolls  of  their  companies  the  lenj2;th  of  time  each 
orticer  and  soldier  of  the  company  has  been  absent  without  leave 
since  the  last  payment  of  the  company. 

Sec.  4.  That  this  act  shall  not  be  construed  to  relieve  any  ofH- 
cer  or  private  from  any  other  penalty  to  ;^hich  he  may  l)e  liable 
by  existing  laws  or  regulations."     [Approved  April  16, 1863.] 

An  Act  explanatory  of  an  ^ct  cntillcd  an  Act  to  auiho.ize  the  Presi- 
dent la  accept  and  place  in  the  service  certain  regiments  and  'battal- 
ions heretofore  raised,  approved  lith  October,  1862. 

**  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  Slates  of  America  do  enact 
That  the  second  section  of  the  act  entitled  an  act  to  authorize  the 
President  to  accept  and  place  in  the  service  certain  regiments 
and  battalions  heretofore  raised,  approved  on  the  11th  day  of  Oc- 
tober, in  the  year  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  sixty-two, 
shall  not  be  so  construed  as  to  authorize  any  general  oftieerto  ap- 
point any  of  the  officers  of  said  regiments  and  battalions.  That 
said  reg-ments  and  battalions  shall  have  the  right  within  ninety 
days,  on  a  day  to  be  fixed  by  the  commander  of  the  brigade  for 
that  purpose,  to  elect  such  officers  as  volunteers  have  heretofore 
been  authorized  to  elect:  provided,  that  this  act  shall  not  apply 
to  any  case  where  such  office  has  heretofore  been  filled  by  elec- 
tion.'^    I  Approved  April  16,  1863.] 

An  Act  to  repeal  certaiti  clauses  of  an   Art   entitled  an  Act   to  exempt 
certain  persons  from  Military  Service,  Sfc,  approved  Oct.  ilth,  1SG2. 

"  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact. 
That  so  mucli  of  the  act  approved  October  eleventh,  one  thousand 
eight  hundred  and  bixty-two,  as  exempts  from  military  service, 
'one  person,  either  as  agent,  owner  or  overseer,  on  each  planta- 
tion on  which  one  white  person  is  required  to  be  kept  by  the  laws 
or  ordinances  of  any  State,  and  on  which  there  is  no  white  male 
adult  not  liable  to  military  service,  and  in  States  having  no  such 
law,  one  person  as  agent,  owner  or  overseer,  on  each  plantation 
of  twenty  negroes,  and  on  which  there  is  no  white  male  adult 
not  liable  to  military  service  ;'  and  also  the  following  clause  in 
said  act,  to  wit:  'and  furthermore,  for  additional  police  for 
every  twenty  negroes,  on  two  or  more  plantations,  within  five 
miles  of  each  othrr,  and  each  having  less  than  twonty  ne^rroes, 
and  on  which  there  is  no  white  male  adult  not  liable  to  military 


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d'Jty,  one  person,  being  tha  oldest  of  the  owners  or  overseers  on 
such  plantations/  be  and  the  same  are  hereby  repealed. 

Sec.  2.  For  the  police  and  management  of  slaves,  there  shall  be 
exempted  one  person  on  each  farm  or  plantation,  the  sole  pro- 
perty of  a  minor,  a  person  of  unsound  mind,  a  feme  sole,  or  a 
person  absent  from  home  in  the  military  or  naval  service  of  the 
Confederacy,  on  which  there  are  twenty  or  more  slaves :  pro- 
vided the  person  so  exempted  was  employed  and  acting  as  an 
overseer  previous  to  the  sixteenth  of  April,  one  thousand  eight 
hundred  and  sixty-two,  and  there  is  no  white  male  adult  on  said 
farm  or  plantation,  who  is  not  liable  to  military  duty,  which  fact 
shall  be  veJfied  by  the  affidavits  of  said  person  and  two  respec- 
table citizens,  and  shall  be  filed  with  the  enrolling  officer:  and 
provided  the  owner  of  such  fa'-m  or  plantation,  his  agent  or  legal 
representative,  shall  make  affidavit  and  deliver  the  same  to  the 
enrolling  officer,  that,  after  diligent  effort,  no  overseer  can  be 
procured  for  such  farm  or  plantation  not  liable  to  military  duty : 
provided,  further,  that  this  clause  shall  not  extend  to  any  farm  or 
plantation  on  which  the  negroes  have  been  placed  by  division 
from  any  other  farm  or  plantation  since  the  eleventh  day  of  Oc- 
tober, one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  sixty-two:  provided,  fur- 
ther, that  for  every  person  exempted  as  aforesaid,  and  during  the 
period  of  such  exemption,  there  shall  be  paid  annually  into  the 
public  treasury,  by  the  owners  of  such  slaves,  the  sum  of  five 
hundred  dollars. 

Sec.  3.  Such  other  persons  shall  be  exempted  as  the  President 
shall  be  satisfied  ought  to  be  exempted  in  districts  of  country  de- 
prived of  white  or  slave  labor  indispensable  to  the  production  of 
grain  or  provisions  necessary  ^or  the  support  of  the  population 
remaining  at  home,  and  also  on  account  of  justice,  equity  and 
necessity. 

Sec.  4.  In  addition  to  the  State  officers  exempted  by  the  f  ct  of 
October  eleventh,  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  sixty-two, 
there  shall  also  be  exempted  all  State  officers  whom  the  Governor 
of  any  State  may  claim  to  have  exempted  for  the  due  adminis- 
tration of  the  government  and  laws  thereof;  but  this  exemption 
shall  not  continue  in  any  State  after  the  adjournment  of  the  next 
regular  session  of  its  legislature,  unless  such  legislature  shall  by 
law  exempt  them  from  military  duty  in  the  provisional  army  of 
the  Confederate  States."     [Approved  May  1,  1863.] 

«^n  Act  to  amend  an  Act  entitled  an  Act  to  organi^ie  Mditary  Courts  to 
attend  the  Army  of  the  Confederate  States  in  the  field,  and  to  define 
the  powers  of  said  Courts,  approved  Oct.  dth,  18(  2. 

"  TJie  Congress  of  the  Confederate  Stales  of  America  do  tnady 
That  in  addition  to  one  military  court  to  attend  each  army  corps 
in  the  field,  as  now  authorized  hy  an  act  entitled  an  act  to  or- 


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ganize  military  courts  to  attend  the  army  of  the  Confederate  States 
in  the  field,  and  to  define  the  power  of  said  courts,  approved  Oc- 
tober ninth,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,  one  military  court 
shall  be  organized  in  each  of  such  military  departments  as,  in 
the  judgment  of  the  President,  the  public  exigencies  may  re- 
quire ;  to  be  organized  in  the  manner  and  with  powers  prescribed 
in  tlie  act  of  which  this  is  amendatory."  I  Approved  May  1, 
1863.1 

»^2n  Act  to  continue  and  amend  the  third  section  of  an  Act  supplemen- 
tary to  an  Art  concerning  the  Pay  and  Allowance  due  to  deceased  sol- 
diers, approved  February  \5tk,  lb62,  and  to  provide  for  the  prompt 
settlement  of  Claims  for  Arrearages  of  Pay,  allowance  and  bounty 
due  deceased  Officers  and  Soldiers. 

*'  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enaciy 
That  the  third  section  of  an  act  entitled  an  act  supplementary  to 
an  act  concerning  the  pay  and  allowance  due  to  deceased  sol- 
diers, approved  February  15th,  eighteen  hundred  and  sisty-two, 
and  to  provide  fur  the  prompt  settlement  of  claims  for  arrearages 
of  pay,  allowance  and  bounty  due  deceased  officers  and  soldiers, 
be  continued  of  force  until  otherwise  provided  by  Congress." 
[Approved  May  1,  1803. J 

Joint  Resolutions  on  the  subject  of  Retaliation. 

'*  Resolved  by  the  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  Arnerica 
In  response  to  the  message  of  the  President,  transmitted  to  Con- 
gress at  the  commencement  of  the  present  session,  that  in  the 
opinion  of  Congress,  the  commissioned  officers  of  the  enemy  ou<Tht 
not  to  be  delivered  to  the  authorities  of  the  respective  States,  aa 
suggested  in  the  said  message,  but  all  captives  taken  by  the  Con- 
federate forces  ought  to  be  dealt  with  and  disposed  of  by  the  Con- 
federate government. 

Sec.  2.  That,  in  the  judgment  of  Congress,  the  proclamations 
of  the  President  of  the  United  States,  dated  respectively  S>'ptem- 
bcr  twenty-second,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two,  and  January 
first,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-three,  and  the  other  measures  of 
the  government  of  the  United  States  and  of  its  authorities,  com- 
manders and  forces,  designed  or  tending  to  emancipate  slaves  in 
the  Confederate  States,  or  to  abduct  such  slaves,  or  to  incite  them 
to  insurrection,  or  to  employ  negroes  in  war  against  the  Confede- 
rate States,  or  to  overthrow  the  institution  of  African  slavery, 
and  bring  on  a  servile  war  in  these  States,  would,  if  succeesfull 
produce  atrocious  consequences,  and  they  are  inconsistent  with 
the  spirit  of  those  usages  which  in  modern  warfare  prevail 
among  civilized  nations;  they  may,  therefore,  be  properly  and 
lawfully /epressed  by  retaliation. 

Seo.  3.  That  in  every  case,  wjiereirj  during  the  present  war, 
any  yiohii^  cf  the  \rfrt  rh  ueages  of  ^ar  alKi^ng  ciTiliVed  ob» 


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tions  shall  be,  or  has  been,  done  and  perpetrated  by  those  acting 
under  the  authority  of  the  Government  of  the  United  States  on 
the  persons  or  property  of  citizens  of  the  Confederate  States,  or 
of  those  under  the  protection  or  in  the  land  or  naval  service  of 
the  Confederate  States,  or  of  any  State  of  the  Confederacy,  the 
President  of  the  Confederate  States  is  hereby  authorized  to  cause 
full  and  complete  retaliation  to  be  made  for  every  such  violation, 
in  such  manner  and  to  such  extent  as  he  may  think  proper. 

Sec  4.  That  every  white  person,  being  a  commissioned  officer, 
or  acting  as  such,  who,  during  the  present  war,  shall  command 
negroes  or  mulattoes  in  arms  against  the  Confederate  States,  or 
who  shall  arm,  train,  organize  or  prepare  negroes  or  mulattoes 
for  military  service  against  the  Confederate  States,  or  who  shall 
voluntarily  aid  negroes  or  mulattoes  in  any  military  enterprise, 
attack  or  conflict,  in  such  service,  shall  be  deemed  as  inciting 
servile  insurrection,  and  shall,  if  captured,  be  put  to  death,  or  be 
otherwise  punished    t  the  discretion  of  the  court. 

Sec.  5.  Every  person,  being  a  commissioned  oflBcer,  or  acting 
as  such  in  the  service  of  the  enemy,  who  shall,  during  the  pre- 
sent war,  excite,  attempt  to  excite,  or  cause  to,  be  excited,  a  ser- 
vile insurrection,  or  who  shall  incite,  or  cause  to  be  incited,  a 
slave  to  rebel,  shall,  if  captured,  be  put  to  death,  or  be  otherwise 
punished  at  the  discretion  of  the  courc. 

Sec.  6.  Every  person  charged  with  an  offence  punishable  under 
the  preceding  resolution,  shall,  during  the  present  war,  be  tried 
before  the  military  court  attached  to  the  army  or  cor|  s  by  the 
troops  of  which  he  shall  have  been  captured,  or  by  such  other 
military  court  as  the  President  may  direct,  and  in  such  manner 
and  under  such  regulations  as  the  President  shall  prescribe,  and 
after  conviction,  the  President  may  commute  the  punishment  in 
such  manner  and  on  such  terms  as  he  may  deeni  propev. 

Sec.  7.  All  negroes  and  mulattces  who  shall  be  engaged  in 
war,  or  be  taken  in  arms  against  the  Confederate  States,  or  shall 
give  aid  or  comfort  to  the  enemies  of  the  Confederate  States, 
shall,  when  captured  in  the  Confederate  States,  be  delivered  to 
the  authorities  of  the  State  or  States  in  which  they  shall  be  cap- 
tured, to  be  dealt  with  according  to  the  present  or  future  laws  of 
such  State  or  States.''     [Approved  May  1,  1863.] 

An  Act  to  provide  for  the  appointment  of  Military   Storekeeper  in  the 
Provisional  Army  of  the  Confedorate  Slates. 

•'  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact. 
That  the  President  be  authorized  to  appoint  as  many  military 
etorekecf.ers  of  ordnance  in  the  provisional  army  of  the  Confede- 
rate States  as  may  be  deemed  necessary,  not  t-o  exceed  in  all 
eight  storekeepers,  four  with  the  pay  and  allowance  of  a  captain 


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of  infantry,  and  four  with  the  pay  and  allowance  of  a  first  lieii_ 
tenant  of  infantry. 

Sec.  2.  Beit  further  enacted,  Tliat  the  military  storekeepers  of 
the  first  class  so  appointed,  shall  be  required  to  give  bonds  in 
the  sum  of  twenty  thousand  dollars,  and  those  of  the  second  cla,s8 
in  the  sum  of  ten  thousand  dollars,  when  charged  with  the  dis- 
bursement of  funds.  This  act  shall  be  in  force  from  and  after 
its  p  issage  :  provided,  that  no  one  shall  be  appointed  under  its 
provisions  except  officers  without  commands,  or  otticers  or  pri- 
vates who  have  performed  meritorious  services  in  the  field,  or 
have  become  incapacitated  by  wounds  or  sickness  for  active  ser- 
vice."    1  Approved  May  1,  1803.;] 

An  Jlct  to  prevent  Fraud  in  the  Quartermaster's  and  Commissary  De- 
partments, and  the  obtaining,  under  false  pretence,  Tromportution 
for  Private  Property. 

♦•  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enactt 
That  no  officer  charged  with  the  safe-keeping,  transfer  or  dis- 
bursement of  public  moneys,  shall  convert  to  his  own  use,  or  in- 
vest in  any  kind  of  property  or  merchandize,  on  private  account, 
or  lend,  with  or  without  interest,  any  portion  of  the  public  mo- 
neys entrusted  to  him  for  safe-keeping,  transfer,  disbursement,  or 
any  other  purpose. 

Sec.  2.  That  no  officer  charged  with  the  safe-keeping,  transfer 
or  disbursement  of  public  moneys,  or  charged  with  or  assigned 
to  the  duty  of  purchasing  for  the  go  ernment  or  any  department 
thereof  shall  buy,  trade,  traffic  or  speculate  in,  either  directly  or 
indirectly,  for  the  purpose  of  gain  to  himself  or  others,  by  resale 
or  otherwise,  any  article  of  food  or  clothing,  or  material  of  N\hich 
the  same  is  made,  or  which  enters  into  or  constitutes  a  part  of 
the  same,  or  any  material  of  war  or  article  whatsoever,  which  is 
or  may  be  required  to  be  purchased  for  the  use  of  the  army  or 
the  prosecution  of  the  war. 

Sec.  3.  No  officer  shall  take  a  receipt  in  blank  for  any  article 
or  articles  purchased  by  him  for  the  government,  or  any  depart- 
ment thereof;  and  every  receipt  sha'l  set  forth  the  true  amount 
paid,  and  on  what  account  ;  and  when  payment  is  made  on  ac- 
count of  property  purchased,  the  receipt  shall  set  forth  the  name 
of  the  person  from  whom  such  property  was  purchased,  and  the 
place  of  his  residence,  the  thing  or  things  purchased,  by  items, 
number,  weight  or  measurement,  as  may  be  customary  in  the 
particular  case,  the  price  thereof,  and  the  date  (»f  payment. 

Sec.  4.  No  officer  who  is  in  charge  of  transportation,  or  who 
is  empowered  to  grant  the  same,  shall  forward  by  government 
conveyance,  or  at  the  expe  se  of  government,  or  to  the  exclu^-iion 
or  delay  of  government  freight,  any  commodity  or  property  of 


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any  kind,  unless  the  same  belongs-  to  the  government,  or  some 
department  thereof,  except  as  authorized  by  law. 

Sec.  5.  Any  officer  who  shall  violate  any  pruvision  in  the  fore- 
going; sections,  shall,  upon  a  conviction  before  a  court  martial  or 
military  court,  be  cashiered,  and  placed  in  the -ranks  as  a  private 
to  serve  during  the  war  :  promded,  that  nothing  herein  contained 
shall  impair  the  civil  remedy  which  the  government  may-have 
against  any  officer  or  his  sureties  for  fraud,  peculation  or  mis- 
application of  the  public  moneys  entrusted  to  him  by  the  govern- 
ment. 

Sec  6.  Be  it  further  enacted.  That  any  person  in  the  employ- 
ment or  service  of  the  government  as  aforesaid,  and  all  other 
persons  coming  within  the  purview  of  this  act,  who  shall  violate 
any  of  the  provisions  of  the  foregoing  sections,  shall  be  liable 
to  indictment,  and  fined  in  a  sum  not  less  than  one  thousand  dol- 
lars, and  imprisoned  not  less  t  an  one  year  nor  longer  than  five 
years,  to  be  imposed  by  the  judge  or  jury  trying  the  cause,  ac- 
cording to  the  course  of  judicial  proceeding  in  force  in  the  seve. 
ral  States:  provided  the  provisions  of  this  act  shall  in  no  wise 
interfere  with  or  impair  the  civil  remedy  which  the  government 
may  have  against  any  of  said  officers  or  their  securities  or  em- 
ployees for  fraud,  peculation  or  misapplication  of  the  moneys  en- 
trusted to  them  respectively, by  the  Confederate  States:  provided 
also,  that  all  conservators  of  the  peace,  who,  by  the  laws  of  the 
several  States,  have  jurisdiction  to  commit  or  bind  over  offenders 
for  breaches  of  the  criminal  laws  of  the  State  in  which  they  may 
reside,  shall  have  power  to  commit  or  bind  over,  in  a  sufficient 
recognizance,  ofi"enders  against  the  provisions  of  this  law,  to  ap- 
pear at  the  next  term  of  the  district  court  of  the  Confederate 
States,  within  the  jurisdiction  of  which  the  ofience  was  commit- 
ted, for  trial,  in  the  same  manner  and  under  the  same  rules  as  if 
such  preliminary  trial  were  had  before  the  judge  of  such  district 
court;  and  the  judges  of  the  Confederate  courts  having  jurisdic* 
tion  of  the  ofi'ences  defined  by  this  act  shall,  at  the  commence- 
ment of  each  session  of  their  respective  courts,  give  this  act  and 
its  provisions  especially  in  charge  to  the  different  grand  juries." 
[Approved  May  1,  1863.  | 

»^n  Jlct  to  pay  Officers,  Non-Commissioned  Officers  and  Privates  vot  W 
gaily  mustered  into  the  service  of  the  Confederate  States,  for  Ser^nces 
actually  performed, 

"  The  Congress  X)f  ilie  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact, 
That  all  officers,  non-commissioned  officers  and  privates  of  any 
legally  constituted  military  organization,  which  may  have  been 
actually  received  into  the  service  of  the  Confederate  States  by 
any  gjoneral  cfiScer  thereof,  but  were  never  legally  mustered  into 
IWT^M,  in  «^^qY>en(f6  of  th«  Io«8  of  the  moeter  foWt  tt  t'UiCli 


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military  organization,  shall  be  entitled  to  receive  pay  from  the 
time  they  were  so  receiyfed:  provided  the  fact  of  their  having 
been  so  received  into  the  service,  and  the  time  they  served,  ia 
duly  proved  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  Secretary  of  War,  under 
rules  to  be  prescribed  by  him."     [Approved  Mayl,  1863.] 

^n  Act  10  provide  for  the  Transfer  of  persons  serving  in  the  Army  to 

the  Navy. 

"  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact, 
That  all  persons  serving  in  the  land  forces  of  the  Confederate  States, 
who  shall  desire  to  be  transferred  to  the  naval  service,  and  whose 
transfer  as  seamen  or  ordinary  seamen  shall  he  applied  for  by 
the  Secretary  of  the  Navy,  shall  be  transferred  from  the  land  to 
the  naval  service  :  provided,  that  nothing  in  this  act  shall  bo  so 
construed  as  to  alter  or  repeal  any  law  now  in  force  limiting  the 
number  of  seamen."     [Approved  May  1,  1863. [ 

An  Act  regulating  the  granting  of  Furloughs  and  Discharges  in 

Hospilah. 

"  Tlie  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact. 
That  sick,  wounded  and  disabled  soldiers  in  hospitals  shall  be  en- 
titled to  furloughs  and  discharges,  under  the  following  rules  and 
regulations  :  In  places  where  there  are  three  or  more  hospitals, 
three  surgeons  in  charge  of  hospitals,  or  divisions  in  hospitals, 
shall  constitute  a  board  of  examiners  for  the  hospitals  to  which 
they  belong,  whose  duty  it  shall  be,  twice  in  each  week,  to  visit 
said  hospitals,  and  examine  applicants  for  furloughs  and  dis- 
charges ;  and  in  all  cases  where  they  shall  find  an  applicant  for 
furlough  unfit  for  military  duty,  either  from  disease  or  wounds, 
and  likely  so  to  remain  for  thirty  days  or  upwards,  they  shall 
grant  a  furlough  for  such  time  as  they  shall  deem  him  unfit  for 
duty,  not  to  exceed  sixty  days.  Said  board  shall  keep  a  secretary 
or  clerk,  who  shall  issue  all  furloughs  by  order  of  th§  board,  and 
shall  specify  therein  the  time  of  furlough,  the  place  of  the  resi- 
dence of  the  soldier,  his  company,  regiment  and  brigade. 

Sec.  2.  Be  it  further  enacted.  That  no  further  regulation  shall 
be  required  of  the  soldier,  and  no  passport  required  other  tban 
his  furlough. 

Sec.  3.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  said  board  may  recom- 
mend discharges,  stating  the  ground  thereof,  which,  when  ap- 
proved by  the  Surgeon  General  or  the  General  commandinn:  the 
army  or  department  to  which  the  soldier  belongs,  shall  entitle 
him  to  a  discharge  and  transportation  *to  the  place  of  his  enlist- 
ment or  residence. 

Sec.  4.  Be  it  further  enacted.  That  in  places  where  there  are 
bat  two  hospitals,  two  surgeons  in  charge  of  a  hospital  or  division 
shall  constitute  a  board  for  the  purposes  aforesaid  ;  abd  in  places 


136 

where  there  is  but  one,  the  surgeon  in  charge,  and  two  assistant 
8uro;euns,  if  there  be  two,  and  it  not,  then  one,  shall  constitute  a 
board  for  the  purpose  aforesaid,  and  ma}'  furioug!)  and  recom- 
mend discharges  as  aforesaid  :  provided,  that  no  furlough  shall 
be  granted  under  the  provisions  of  this  act,  if,  in  the  opinion  of 
the  board,  the  life  or  convalescence  of  the  patient  would  be  en- 
dangered thereby. 

Sec.  5.  The  house  surgeon  in  all  hospitals  shall  see  each  pa- 
tient under  his  charge  once  every  day."  [Approved  May  1, 
1863.] 

S.  COuPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  ]  Adj't  and  Insp'r  GenVs  Office, 

No.  109.  ]  Richmond,  August  11,  1863. 

I.  A  general  pardon  is  given  to  all  officfrs  and  men  within 
the  Conlederaey,  now  absent  without  leave  from  the  army,  who 
shall  (within  twenty  days  from  the  publication  of  the  address  of 
the  President  in  the  State  in  which  the  absentees  may  then  be) 
return  to  their  posts  of  duty. 

II.  All  men  who  have  been  accused  or  convicted,  and  under- 
going sentence  for  absence  without  leave,  or  desertion,  except 
only  those  who  have  been  twice  c;  nvicted  of  desertion,  will  be 
returned  to  their  respective  commands  for  duty. 

By  Older. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General, 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  "j  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  110.  J  Richmond,  August  12,  1863. 

I.  The  officers  of  ordnance  duties  in  the  provisional  army,  ap- 
pointed under  the  Acts  of  Congress  of  April  2lst  and  Septem- 
ber IGth,  1862,  will,  until  further  orders,  be  distributed  into 
grades,  as  authorized  by  the  latter  act,  as  follows:  4  lieutenant 
colonels,  9  majors,  65  captains,  40  first  lieutenants,  and  32  sec- 
ond lieutenants.  Appointments  to  these  grades  will  be  made  on 
the  report  of  the  Chief  of'Ordnance.  Those  officers  serving  in 
the  field  will  also  be  reported  by  the  Generals  commanding  the 
army  or  department  prior  to  appointment. 

II.  Ordnance  officers  on  duty  in  the  field  will,  as  far  as  prac- 
ticalde,  be  assigned  to  comn)and  according  to  rank,  as  follows: 
lieutenant  colonels  to  armies,  majors  to  army  corps,  captains  to 


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departments  and  divisions,  and  lieutenants  to  brip;adea.  No 
claim  to  promotion,  however,  will  })e  recognized  in  consequence 
of  assir!;timent  to  any  command. 

III.  Two  ordnance  officers,  not  above  the  rank  of  captain,  may 
be  allowed  as  assistiints  to  the  ehief  ordnance  officer  of  nn  army, 
and  one,  not  above  the  rank  of  first  lieutenant,  to  the  chief  ord- 
nance officer  of  an  army  corps.  One  assist mt,  nut  above  the 
rank  of  second  lieutenant,  may  also  be  allowed  to  the  chief  ord- 
nance officer  of  a  department,  when  absolutely  necessary,  upon 
application  to  the  Chief  of  the  Bureau  of  Ordnance. 

IV.  The  desijj^nation  of  the  chief  ordnance  officer  attached  to 
commands  will  correspond  with  the  desi2;nation  of  such  com- 
mands: as  chief  ordnance  officer  of  the  army  of ;  chief 

ordnance  officer  of army  corps  ;  chief  ordnance  officer  of 

department ;  ordnance  officer  of division  ;  ord- 
nance officer  of bri<j;ade. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER. 
A<ljutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  )        Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  111.  )  Richmond,  August  13,  1863. 

Quartermasters  who  are  purchasing;  supplies,  and  who  have 
means  of  transportation  at  their  command,  are  directed  to  assist, 
as  far  as  practicable,  the  quartermasters  receivin«j  the  tax  in 
kind,  in  transporting  the  supplies  collected  from  their  depots 
of  collection,  to  the  issuing  depots  of  the  army.  They  will  also 
permit  their  st'jrehouse  to  be  used  for  the  storage  of  articles  of 
the  produce  tax. 


By  order. 


S.  COOPER, 
Adjtttani  and  Inspector  General, 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  "j  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'i/s  Office, 

No.  112.  J  Richmond,  August  15,  1863. 

I.  A  Court  of  Enquiry  having  been  convened  at  Richmond  on 
the  29th  of  July,  I.S63,  pursuant  to  paragraph  XVII,  Special 
Orders,  No.  176,  Adjutant  and  Inspector  General's  Office,  cur- 
rent series,  to  examine  into  certain  charges  preferred  against 
Major  William  Norris,  Chief  of  the  Signal  Corps,  and  having 
made  the  required  examination,  the  report  oi  facts  proven,  with 


the  opinion  of  the  Court  thereon,  ia  published  for  the  informa- 
tion of  all  coDoerned. 


REPORT    OF    FACTS. 

1.  Major  Norris  was  not  intoxicated  on  the  31st  of  May,  1863. 

2.  He  did  not  reveal  the  alphabet  of  the  signal  corps  on  the 
3 let  of  May,  1863. 

3.  The  enemy  knew  or  had  opportunity  to  know  the  locality 
of  the  signal  stations  between  City  Point  and  Ciairmont  before 
the  3 1st  of  May,  1SG3,  none  of  which  were  disclosed  to  him  by 
Major  Norris  on  that  day. 

4.  The  dispatch  shown  to  Captain  Mulford  by  Major  Norris 
was  a  private  dispatch,  conveying  a  report  of  successes  at  Vicks- 
burg. 

5.  There  was  no  improper  intercourse  between  Major  Norris 
and  any  officers  or  persons  in  the  service  of  the  enemy,  on  the 
31st  of  May,  1863. 

OPINION. 

The  Court  is  of  opinion  that  the  charges  Jn  this  case  have 
been  loo?ely  made,  and  without  due  care  and  investigation,  and 
should  not  be  further  entertained.  The  Court  is  also  of  opinion 
that  the  private  and  official  character  of  Major  Norris  remains 
unaffected  by  this  proceeding. 

II.  The  charges,  of  which  Major  Norris  has  been  thus  fully 
exonerated  by  the  Court,  were  made  without  that  consideration 
which  their  serious  character  demanded,  and  in  a  manner  that 
subjects  the  prosecutor,  Lieut.  R.  A.  Forbes,  2d  Company  Inde- 
pendent Signal  Corps,  to  the  grave  censure  of  the  department. 
The  personal  and  official  character  of  an  officer  is  not  to  be  light- 
ly assailed.  The  accuser  will  be  held  to  support  his  charges  by 
evidence — and  in  an  especial  manner  is  he  required  to  avoid 
creating  the  impression  that  the  loose,  unofficial  statements  of 
others  are  facts  within  his  own  knowledge.  The  greatest  care 
and  consideration  should  be  manifested  by  those  preferring 
charges,  particularly  when  the  reputation,  personal  and  profes- 
sional, of  a  superior,  is  called  in  question. 

III.  The  Court  of  Enquiry,  of  which  Lieut.  Col.  George 
Deas,  Adjutant  General's  department,  was  president,  is  hereby 
dissolved. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
AfJjiitant  and  Inspector  General, 


l$9 

GENERAL  ORDERS,  ^        Adj't  and  Insp'r  GinVs  Offici, 

No.  113.  J  Richmond,  August  18,  18G3. 

I.  OfiBcers  receiving  volunteers  from  those  liable  to  conscrip- 
tion, will  in  no  case  grant  furloughs  for  more  than  ten  days  to 
such  volunteers,  before  entering  on  active  service. 

II.  Every  man  liable  to  conscription,  volunteering  before  en- 
rollment, will  report  himself,  and  the  company  in  which  he  vol- 
unteers, and  likewise  bo  reported  by  his  captain  to  the  comman- 
dant of  conscripts  for  the  State,  within  ten  days  after  his  act  of 
volunteering — otherwise  he  will  be  held  subject  to  enrollment 
and  assignment. 

By  order.  S.  COOPER. 

Adjutant  and  Inspector  .General. 

GENERAL  ORDERS,  |        Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  114.  j  Richmond,  August  22,  1863. 

I.  Permanent  posts, and  depots  established  by  the  quartermas- 
ter's department,  are  placed  under  the  special  control  of  the 
Quartermaster  General,  though  subject  to  the  inspection  of  the 
commanding  officer  of  the  department  in  which  they  are  located. 

II.  Changes  in  the  assignment  of  officers  stationed  at  such 
posts  and  depots,  will  be  made  only  through  orders  hom  his  ottice  ; 
and  no  change  in  the  location  of  posts  and  depots  will  be  or- 
dered by  the  department  commander,  except  under  circum- 
stances of  strong  emergency  :  in  which  cases  a  report  of  such 
changes,  with  tlie  reason  therefor,  will  be  transmitted  to  the 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General's  office. 

By  order.  S.  COOPER, 

Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 

GENERAL  ORDERS,  |  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Officb, 

No.  115.  j  Richmond,  August  2'^,  li^^Z. 

I.  Tlie  lollowiiig  schedules  of  prices  for  articles  named  there- 
in, udofited  by  uommissiijueis  appointed  pursuant  to  law,  for  the 
State  of  Virginia,  jiie  announced  for  the  information  of  ail  con- 
cerned ;  and  the  special  attention  of  olScers  and  agents  of  the 
government  is  directed  thereto  : 

Richmond,  August  20,  1803. 
Hon.  J  as.  A.  Sf.ddon,  Scc'y  of  War. 

Sir — The  Commissioners  appointed  under  section  5th,  of  the 
i.ill  let-ently  passed  Ijy  the  Confederate  Congress,  regulating  im- 
pressments, being  required  to  agree  upon  and  publish  a  schedule 
of  prices  every  two  months,  or  oftener,  if  they  should  deem  it 


140 


proper,  in  accordance  with  the  foregoing  requisM  m,  we  reppoct- 
fully  lay  before  you  the  following  schedules  of  ices,  marked  A 
and  B,  for  the  ensuing  month.  Owing  to  the  '  fficulty  of  obtain- 
ing satisfactory  information  as  to  pork,  we  uave  postponed  the 
appraisement  till  our  nest  assessment. 

The  following  schedules  present  the  maxl  oum  prices  to  b«  paid 
for  the  articles  appraised,  at  all  cities  and  i.saal  places  of  sale,  and 
when  impressed  elsewhere,  the  same  prices  are  to  be  paid  elsewhere,- 
less  the  cost  of  transportation  to  the  city  ot  usual  place  of  sale  to' 
which  the  article  would  go  ordinarily  for  sale  from  that  neigh- 
borhood, or  less  the  cost  of  transportation'  fo  the  point  at  which 
the  government  needs  the  article,  and  wishes  it  to  be  sent :  Pro- 
vided, that  in  no  case  the  amount  deducted  fo?  transportation  aiS' 
above  shall  exceed  25  cents  per  bushel  for  grain,  and  25"  cents  per 
ewt.  for  long  forage,  flour,  bacon,  iron,  &c.  In  addition  to  the"' 
established  price  of  transportation,  the  government  to  pay  all' 
legal  tolls,  and,  where  farmers  cannot  procure  nails  for  baling' 
forage,  government  to  furnish  the  same  at  cost,  which  will  be  dct^ 
ducted  from  the  established  price  of  baling : 
•    .  Schedule  A. 


ARTICLE. 

O' 

DESCRIPTION. 

QUANTITY. 

PRICE. 

1   Wheat, 

Prime, 

White, 

Pr  bush  of     60  lbs. 

$  5  00 

2    Flour, 

Good, 

Superfine, 

Prbarreiof  196  lbs. 

25  00 

3  Corn, 

Prime, 

Wh'eoryellw 

Pr  bush  of     56  lbs. 

4  00 

4  Unslie.Ued  corn, 

u 

i(              (( 

"        56  lbs. 

3  95 

5  Corn  meal, 

Good, 

''         "        50  lbs 

4  20 

6  Rye, 

Prime, 

"         "        56  lbs. 

3  20 

7   Cieaaed  oats, 

u 

«         "        32  ibs. 

2  00 

8   Wheat  bran, 

Good, 

»         "        17  lbs. 

50 

9   Sliorts, 

u 

«         "        22  lbs. 

70 

10   Brown  stuff, 

1( 

"         "        28  lbs. 

90 

11   Ship  stuff, 

(( 

"         «        37  lbs. 

1  40 

12  Bacon, 

u 

Hog  round, 

Per  pound, 

1  00 

13  Salt  pork, 

u 

u 

1  00 

14  Lard, 

u 

(( 

1  00 

15  Horses, 

Istcl's 

Artillery,  &:c. 

A  v'ge  price  pi  head 

3i30  00 

16  Wool, 

Fairer 

Mer'o 

Washed, 

Per  pound, 

3  00 

17  Wool, 

Fair  or 

Mer'o 

Unvv-ashed, 

(( 

2  00 

IS  Peas, 

Good, 

Per  bush  of  60  lbs. 

4  00 

19   Beans, 

u 

U                               CI        u 

4  00 

20  Potatoes, 

a 

Irish, 

(( 

4  00 

,21   Potatoes, 

U 

Sweet,     - 

U 

5  00 

141 
Schedule  A. — Continued- 


: i_; 

ARTICLE. 

< 

DESGHIPTION. 

QUAMITV. 

PRIOR. 

2"2   Onions, 

Good, 

Per  bii.sli  ol"   ()(t  ID- 

S  5  OQt 

23    Dried  peaclies, 

'> 

Pealed. 

•  of  38  ib> 

8  00- 

24   Dried  j)ea(;lics> 

iC 

Unpen  led, 

of  38  Ib^^. 

4   50. 

ST)    Iried  jipples. 

a 

Pealed, 

of  28  lbs 

3  00' 

26  Hay,  baled, 

Timothy  or 

a 

clover. 

Per  100  pounds. 

3  00' 

Q7  Hay,  baled, 

Orchard  or 

a 

herd  grass. 

((              (( 

3  00 

28  Hay,  unbaled, 

Orchard  or 

A 

(.1 

herd  grass, 

It                                .. 

2  70 

29  Sirf  oats,  baled. 

u 

(C                        u 

4   OO 

30  Sh"oats.  unb'd. 

u 

(I                       u 

3  70 

31   Blade  fodder, 

baled, 

u 

U                        li 

3  00 

32  Blade  fodder, 

unbpled, 

u 

u                 u 

2   70 

33  Slincks,  baled, 

u 

((                 a 

2   OO 

34  Shucks,  unb\l. 

t(. 

u                a 

1   70 

35  Wlieai  straw, 

baled. 

(1 

a                 u 

1  00 

36   Wlieat  straw, 

unbaled, 

(( 

U                            (I 

70 

37  Pasturage, 

Good, 

Interior, 

Per  head  pr  month. 

3  00 

38         " 

Sup'r, 

(; 

((                         u 

4  OO 

39         " 

1st  r'te 

u 

((               l( 

5  00 

40         " 

Good, 

Near  cltiee, 

U                          ((. 

5  00 

41          " 

Sup'r, 

u 

U                              iL 

6  00 

42         " 

1st  r'te 

l( 

a                  (1 

7   00 

43  Salt, 

Good, 

Per  bush  of  50  lbs. 

5  00 

44  Soap, 

(C 

Per  pound, 

40 

45   Candles, 

(( 

Tallow, 

u 

1  00 

46  Vinejiar, 

li 

Cider, 

Per  gallon., 

1   00 

47   Wliis-key, 

a 

Trade, 

(. 

3  00 

48   Sngar, 

it 

Brown, 

Per  pound, 

1   00 

40  Mnlasses, 

i( 

New  Orleans, 

Per  gallon, 

S  00 

:if)   Rice, 

u 

Per  })ound, 

20 

51   Coffeo, 

(( 

Rio, 

t( 

3  00 

52  Tea, 

(( 

Trade, 

(( 

7  00 

53  Vinegar,  _ 

(i 

Manufact'd, 

Per  gallon, 

50 

04   Pig  iron, 

u 

No.  1  quality. 

Per  ton, 

125  00 

55    Pig  iron, 

(C 

No.  2 

a 

HO  OO 

56    Pi^  ir.,n. 

'( 

No.  3       '' 

(i 

100  00 

57  Bloom  iron, 

(t 

u 

ISO  00 

142 


Schedule  A — Continued. 


ARTICLE. 

H 

< 

DESCRIPTION. 

QUANTITY. 

PRIGS. 

58  Smith's  iron, 

Good, 

Round,  plate 

$ 

u 

and  bar, 

Per  ton, 

380  00 

50  Railroad  iron, 

C( 

u 

190  00 

60  Leather, 

u 

Harness, 

Per  pound, 

2  60 

61          '• 

l( 

Sole, 

u 

2  40 

62         " 

" 

Upper, 

•' 

2  80 

63  Beef  cattle, 

(t 

Gross  weight, 

Per  100  pounds, 

16  00 

64          " 

Sup'r, 

((            (i 

K                       (( 

18  00 

65          " 

l*t  r'te 

((        •  (( 

■  H                     U 

20  00 

66  Sheep, 

Fair, 

Per  head, 

30  00 

67  Army  woollen 

% 

cloth,  ^  yd. 

Good, 

10  oz.  per  yd. 

Per  yard, 

4  50 

68  Army  woollen 

Pro  rata  as  to 

cloth, 

" 

greater  or  less 

Width  or  weight, 

69  Army  woollen 

cloth,  6  4  yd. 

u 

2C  oz.  per  yd. 

Per  yard. 

9  00 

70  Army  woollen 

Pro  rata  as  to 

cloth. 

(C 

greater  or  less 

Width  or  weight, 

71  Flannels,           | 

<c 

6  oz.  per  yd. 

Per  yard. 

3  00 

72  Cotton  shirt'g,! 

(( 

4^  yds.  to  lb. 

(t 

42 

73         "           "        1 

(( 

3|  yds.  to  lb. 

u 

50 

74  Cotton  sheet- 

ings, 4-4, 

(( 

3  yds.  to  lb. 

(1 

60 

75  Cotton  ozna- 

burgs,  i, 

(( 

6  oz.  per  yd. 

60 

76  Cotton  ozna- 

burgs,  •§-, 

(( 

8  oz.  per  yd. 

(( 

70 

77  Cotton  drills,  |-, 

i( 

3  yds.  to  lb. 

i( 

70 

78  Cotton  shirting 

stripes, 

u 

3  yds.  to  lb. 

(( 

70 

79  Cotton  tent 

cloths, 

a 

10  oz.  to  yd. 

i( 

87 

80* 

81   Cotton  warps, 

« 

Per  pound, 

1   63 

82  Army  shoes. 

(( 

Per  pair, 

10  00 

83  Shoe  thread, 

« 

Per  pound, 

2  00 

84   Wool  socks  for 

inen^ 

" 

Per  pair, 

1   25 

85   Males, 

1st  r'te 

Wairon,  &c. 

A  v"e  price  pr  head. 

300  00 

*  On  the  above  enumerated  cotton  cloths,  pro  rata  as  to  greater 
or  less  width  or  weight. 


us 

In  assessing  the  average  value  of  "first  class  artillery  and 
wa^o'.i  horses  at  §350,"  we  designed  that  the  term  should  he  ac- 
cepted and  acted  upr-n  anciird'iig  to*  its  ohvious  common  sense 
imDort.  In  other  words,  that  horses  should  he  .selected,  and  then 
impressed  accordingly  as  their  working  qualities  and  adaptation 
to  army  service,  together  with  their  intrinsic  value,  would  war- 
rant a  judicious  purchaser  in  considering  them  as  coming  within 
the  contemplation  of  the  commissioners  when  they  assessed  the 
average  value  of  such  horses  as  the  government  needed,  at  $350. 
But  cases  might  arise,  however,  when  the  public  exigencies  would 
be  80  urgent  as  to  demand  that  al'  horses  at  hand  should  be  im- 
pressed. Yet  under  ordinary  circumstances,  when  family  or  ex- 
tra blooded  hoVses,  or  brood  mares  of  adti'itted  high  value  are  im- 
pressed, we  respectfully  suggest  to  the  Secretary  of  War  to  have 
instructions  forwarded  to  the  impressing  oflScers  to  propose  and 
allow  the  owners  to  substitute  in  their  stead  such  strong,  sound 
and  serviceable  horses  or  mules  as  shall  be  considered  and  valued 
by  competent  and  disinterested  parties  as  first  class  artillery 
horses,  or  first  rate  wagon  mules. 

The  terra  "average  value  per  head"  was  used  in  contradistinc- 
tion to  a  fixed  and  uniform  price  for  each  horse  or  mule.  Wo 
supposed  that  in  inipressing  a  number  of  horses  or  mules,  whe- 
ther owned  by  several  persons,  or  one  individual,  that  some 
might  be  estimated  at  $250,  or  even  at  less,  and  others  at  difier- 
ent  advanced  rates,  according  to  their  worth,  up  as  high  as  $450, 
or  above  that  amount — thus  making  an  average  value  or  price  for 
a  number  of  good,  sound  and  efficient  horses,  $350  each,  and 
mules  $300  eacH. 

In  illustration  of  our  views,  we  will  add,  that  a  horse  with 
only  one  eye  sound,  might,  in  all  other  respects,  bo  classed  as  a 
first  rate  artillery  horse,  yet  the  loss  of  one  eye  would  justly  and 
considerably  curtail  his  value.  So  a  horse  from  10  to  18  years  of 
age  might  be  deemed  in  all  other  particulars  as  a  first  class  artil- 
lery horse,  but  of  course,  however  efficient  or  able  to  render  good 
service  f  )r  a  year  or  so,  yet  his  advanced  age  would  justly  and 
materially  impair  bis  value.  Any  horse,  however  he  may  ap- 
proximate the  standard  of  a  first  class  artillery  horse,  must,  ac- 
cording to  deficiencies,  fall  below  the  maximum  price;  and  as 
few  comparatively  exactly  come  up  to  the  standard,  and  therefore 
are  entitled  to  the  maximum  price,  so  of  course  in  all  other  in- 
stances the  price  should  be  proportionately  reduced,  as  imperfec- 
tions place  them  below  the  standard  of  first  class,  «fec. 

e.  w.  iiubard, 
Robert  Gibbonet, 
Commifsimd'd  for  Va, 


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ScHEiDULE  B. — Hire  of  LabCr,  Teams,  Wagons  and  Drivers-' 


1.  Baling  long  forage,         » 

2.  Shelling  and   bagging  corn,  sacks   fur- 

nished by  the  government, 

3.  Hauling,  .  .  .  . 

4.  Hauling  grain, 

5.  Hire    of    two-horse    team,  wagon  and 

driver,  rations  furnished  by  owner,  . 

6.  Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 

government,     .  .  .  . 

7.  Hir-    of   four-horse   team,  wagon    and 

driver,  rations  furnislied   by  owner,   . 

8.  Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 

government,     .  .  .  . 

9.  Hire   of   six-horse    team,    wagon    and 

driver,  rations  furnished  by  owner,    . 

10.  Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 

government,     .  .  .  . 

11.  Hire  of   laborer,  rations  furnished  by 

owner,  .  .  .  . 

12.  Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 

government,     .  .  .  . 

13.  Hire    of    same,    rations    furnished    by 

owner,  .  .  .  . 

14.  Hire  of  same,  rations  f.irnished  by  the 

government,     .  .  .  . 


QUA 

NTITY  &  TIME. 

PBICB. 

Per 

100  lbs. 

$  '30 

56  " 

05 

cwt.  p.  mi 

le, 

06 

bush  " 

03 

day, 

10  00 

u 

5  00 

u 

13  00 

u 

6  50 

(( 

16  00 

(C 

8  00 

u 

2  00 

(( 

1  25 

month, 

40  00 

.( 

20  00 

Bj  order. 


•    E.    W.    HUBARD, 
JlOBERT    GlBBONEY, 

Commissioners  for  Va. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


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GENERAL  ORDERS,  )  Adj't  and  Lvsp'r  Gbn'l's  Opficb, 

No.  116,  )  Iliclnnond,  August  31,  1863. 

I.  Generals,  or  other  officers  commanding  departments,  armies 
in  the  field,  posts  or  garrisons,  will  cause  all  deserters,  stragglers 
or  other  absentees  from  duty,  and  all  persons  liable  to  military 
Bervice,  found  within  their  lines  and  not  belonging  to  their  com- 
mand, to  be  forthwith  arrested  and  turned  over  to  the  nearest 
enrolling  officer,  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  forward  such  absentees 
to  their  proper  command,  or,  in  case  of  conscripts,  to  assign  them 
to  service  in  the  army  nearest  to  his  post,  according  to  his  dis- 
cretion.* 

II.  Under  instructions  from  the  Bureau  of  Conscription,  an 
enrolling  officer  will  be  attached  to  each  military  department  to 
carry  out  the  purposes  indicated  in  paragraph  I. 

III.  Overseers  entitled  to  exemption  will  be  exempted  from 
military  service  for  one  year,  when  i\\^  owner  of  the  slaves  of 
whom  the  overseer  has  had  charge,  shall  present  to  the  enrolling 
officer  the  receipt  of  a  quartermaster  for  the  amount  of  the  tax 
imposed  in  such  cases  by  the  act  of  Congress,  approved  May  1, 
1863.  Officers  of  the  Quartermaster's  department  are  directed  to 
receive  and  receipt  for  money  thus  paid. 

By  order, 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General- 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  1  Adj't  and  Insp'r  GenVs  Office* 

No.  117.  j  Richmond,  Sept.  3,  1863. 

I.  In  any  case  whore  the  exigencies  of  the  army  compel  im- 
pressment or  purchase,  for  its  use,  of  the  whole  ofany  one  arti- 
cle, 01'  all  articles  of  the  planter's  production,  taxed  in  kind,  the 
post  quartermaster  of  the  district  will  transfer  to  his  district  col- 
lector the  assessor's  eftimate,  to  be  collected  in  the  money  value 
only,  at  the  rate  of  purchase  or  impressment,  as  the  case  may  be. 
Before  making  such  transfer,  thtfpost  quartermaster  of  the  dis- 
trict will  credit  the  producer  upon  such  estimates  with  the  amount 
of  such  articles  as  he  may  have  paid  in  kind,  and  endorse  thereon 
the  circumstances  under  which  the  transfer  is  made. 

*  Modified  by  Par   II.  Gen,  Ordcre,  Kn.  128. 


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II.  Controlling  and  post  quartermasters  of  districts  wiTI  keep 
and  report  their  accounts  relating  to  tax  in  kind,  separate  and 
distinct  from  all  others. 

III.  Producers  are  required  to  deliver  the  wheat,  rarn,  oats,  rye^ 
buckwheat,  rice,  peas,  beans,  cured  hay  and  fodder,  sugar,  rao- 
)as8es  of  cane,  wool  and  tobacco,  in  such  form  and  ordinary  mar- 
ketable condition  as  may  be  usual  ia  the  section  in  which  they 
are  delivered — cotton  ginned  and  packed  in  some  secure  manncF 
— tobacco  stripped  and  packed  in  boxes. 

lY.  Where  post  quartermasters  of  districts  entrust  agents  witb 
clisbursements,  eare  must  be  taken  that  receipts  and  accounts  be 
stated  in  the  nacse  of  the  post  auartermaster, 

Y.  Quartermasters  and  commissaries  serving  with  troops  may 
receive  the  tithe  tax,  when  authorized  to  do  so  by  the  chief  quar- 
termaster or  chief  commissary  of  the  army  in  which  they  are 
serviBg.  The  names  of  svveh  autboriz-ed  o®<5ers  will  be  reported 
to  the  Quartermaster  Oeneral. 

YI.  Where  producers  ojfer  to  pay  their  tithe  tax  to  officers  au- 
thorized to  receive  it,  it  is  obliyaioj-y  upon  the  latter  to  receive 
the  produce,  and  to  pay  the  excess  of  traaspo?tation  over  eighS 
miles,  at  the  rates  prsscribed  by  stats  commiasionsrs,  under  ther 
impressment  act.  In  each  case  they  will  receipt  to  the  p^ist  quar- 
terujaster  of  the  district  lb?  the  produce.  Upon  this  receipt  the 
yeceiving  officer  will  be  responsible  for  the  quantity  which  he  wil) 
4ake  u-p  on  his  property  return.  The  receipt  given  to  the  produ- 
cer will  only  be  evidence  that  so  snuch  of  bis  tax  is  paid.  In  alJ 
such  receipts  the  name  of  the  producer  and  his  county  will  be 

stated. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  |         Ai>j't  and  Insf'r  Gen'l's  Officii 
No.  118.  )  EicJimond,  Sept,  1,  1863. 

I.  All  officers  of  the  Quarttrmaster's  department  serving  aifc 
posts  or  depots,  vnW  report  immediately  to  the  Quartermaster 
Oeneral  their  location,  the  character  of  the  duties  discharged  by 
them,  and  by  whose  order  they  were  so  assigned. 

II.  The  principal  quartermatter  at  each  poster  depot  will  like- 
i^ise  report  the  names  of  all  quartermafijters  serving  thereat.    He 


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■will  <alflO  cxamlno  csrcfully  ^nto  the  occwpatinn  -©f  cacli  gScct, 
and  will  designate  such  as  can  be  spared  for  service  elsewhere. 

III.  The  chief  quartermaster  of  each  separate  army  will  for 
ward  to  the  Quartermaster  General,  at  the  earlieet  practicable 
day,  a  complete  list  of  all  his  suhordinatee,  stating  specifically 
the  regiment,  brigade,  diviMon  or  corps  to  which  each  may  he 
s:ttached,  or  when  tngagcd  on  special  duty,  the  character  thereof. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Jnspecler  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  ]  Adj't  and  Insp'r  GenY's  Office, 

No.  119.  J  Richmond,  SepU  7,  18G3. 

I.  All  officers  and  agents  of  the  Quartermaster's,  Commissary 
and  Conscription  departments  will  render  all  assistance  in  their 
power  in  collecting  arms  abandoned  or  left  q-^  stragglers  in  th-e 
iiands  of  citizens, 

II.  Arms  thus  collected  will  be  turned  over  to  tho  nearest 
ordnance  ofKcer,  who  v>'ill  iv3ceipt  for  tl>6  same,  a'nd,  upon  proper 
vouchers,  pay  any  reasonable  expense  actually  incurred  for  trans- 
.nortation. 

IIL  "  Med ica^I  inspectors  will  be  recommended  by  the  Surgeon 
General,  and  being  approved,  will  be  announced  in  orders  from 
this  office." 

IV.  As  heretofore  required  in  General  Orders,  No.  CI,  of  1862, 
respecting  the  hides  of  beeves,  commissaries  of  subsistence  in  thfi 
lield  and  at  depots  will  transfer  the  hides  of  all  filaughter-ed  sheep 
to  ofScers  oi  tiie  Quartermaster's  dc-partmcut,  wiio  will  receive 
and  preserve  them  to  be  tanned. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjuloni  and  Insiteclor  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  |  Auj't  and  iNSf^'R  <5«:nVs  Offwe, 

No.  120.  \  Richmond,  Sept.  8,  18G3. 

I.  At  a  General  Court  Martial,  convened  at  Chattanooga,  Ten- 
nfissGC,  June  24, 18G3,  bj  vLi'tue  yf  Special  Ord^i's,  No.  OS,  dated 


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Head  Quarters  Army  of  Tennessee,  March  IG,  1863,  was  arraign- 
ed and  tried : 

Capt.  G.  D.  Mitchell,  Assistant  Quartermaster  P.  A.  C.  S.,  on 
the  following  Charge— (The  Specifications  being  very  lengthy, 
are  here  omitted :) 

Charge,        -  Conduct  unbecoming  an  officer  and  gentleman* 

II.   Finding  and  Sentence  of  Court. 

After  mature  deliberation,  the  Court  find  the  accused,  Captain 
G.  D.  Mitchell^  Asst.  Quartermaster  P.  A.  G.  S.,  as  follows  : 

Of  the  1st  Specification,       -            -            -            .  Guilty. 

Of  the  2d  Specification,         -            -            -            .  Guilty. 

Of  the  Charge, Guilty. 

And  do,  therefore,  sentence  him  to  be  cashiered. 

III.  The  proceedings  in  the  foregoing  case  having  been  laid  be- 
fore the  Secretary  of  War  for  the  consideration  of  the  President, 
the  following  is  his  order  thereon  :  * 

The  sentence  of  the  Court  in  this  case  is  not  approved — the 
evidence  not  being  sufficient  to  support  the  charge. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,]         Adj't  and  IxXsp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  121.  j  Jiichmond,  Septejnher  9,  1863. 

I.  Paragraph  1064  of  the  Army  Regulations  (107  of  the  Reg- 
ulations of  the  Quartermaster's  Department,)  is  amended  to  read 
as  follows: 

*'  Officers  are  entitled  to  pay  from  the  date  of  the  acceptan'^e 
of  their  appointments,  and  from  the  date  i>f  promotion:  pro- 
vided, that  disbursing  officers,  who  are  required  to  give  ofSoial 
bonds,  shall  forward  the  same,  always  duly  executed,  with  their 
letters  of  acceptance,  and  that  their  acceptance  shall  take  effect 
only  from  the  date  of  the  approval  of  the  bonds  by  the  War  De- 
partment. But  in  no  case  will  an  officer  be  assigned  to  duty, 
and  receive  pay,  until  he  has  received  bis  appointment.  Notifi- 
cations of  the  receipt  and  approval  of  said  bonds  will  be  for- 
warded to  officers,  through  the  chief  of  the  Bureau  to  which 
they  belong.* 

*  See  also  Par.  I.,  General  Orders,  No.  226. 


141^ 

II.  All  ofticcis  uf  the  Quartermaster  General's  auJ  Oommia- 
sary  General's  departments  (except  such  as  hold  commissions  in 
the  regular  army  of  the  Confederate  States,)  appointed  prior  to 
the  commencement  of  the  present  session  of  Conj^ress  (January 
12th,  1853,)  and  whose  bonds,  prior  to  the  date  of  this  order, 
have  not  been  filed  in,  and  approved  by  the  War  Pepartm3nt, 
Are  hereby  dropped  :  provided,  that  on  satisfactory  evidence  that 
such  failure  has  not  been  the  result  of  gross  neglect,  the  Com- 
manding General  may  grant  the  ofScers  concerned  a  short  leave 
of  absence  to  make  and  forward  their  bonds,  and  shall  report 
this  fact  to  the  Quartermaster  General. 

III.  No  application  for  the  revocation  of  the  above  order,  in 
any  individual  case,  will  be  entertained  by  the  War  Department. 
If  a  vacancy  be  occasioned  in  any  brigade  or  regiment,  or  at  a 
post,  application  will  be  made  for  a  new  appointment,  in  con- 
formity to  General  Oiders,  No.  8,  1863  ;  and  the  appointee,  in 
accepting  his  position,  will  be  held  strictly  to  the  requirements 
of  preceding  paragraph  I. 

IV.  Officers  of  the  Quartermaster  General's  department,  whose 
appointments  bear  date  subsequent  to  the  12th  day  of  January, 
1863,  and  who  have  not  filed  bonds,  duly  executed,  will  be  al- 
lowed a  furlough  for  such  time,  not  exceeding  sixty  days,  as  may 
be  necessary  to  enable  them  to  execute  their  bonds. 

V.  Commanding  officers  will  be  careful  to  recommend  for  ap- 
pointment as  disbursing  officers,  only  such  persons  as  furnish 
reasonable  assurance  ut  their  ability  to  execute  the  bonds  re- 
quired by  law. 

VI.  All  letters  of  appointment  hereafter  issued  will  be  accom- 
panied by  a  notification  to  the  appointee,  that  his  official  bond 
must  be  returned  with  his  aoccptance,  and  that  the  latter  will 
take  eSect  only  from  the  date  at  which  said  bond  is  approved. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  ]  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  122.  J  nichmond,  Seplemlcr  11,  1863. 

I.  Commanding  officers  of  regiments,  battalions,  ttc,  will  im- 
mediately on  receipt  hereof,  cause  to  be  made  out  and  forward- 
ed, through  proper  channels,  to  Col.  J.  S.  Preston,  Chief  of  the 
Bureau  of  Conscriptiun,  a  complete  list  of  all  persons  held  as 
substitutes  in  the  army,  in  their  respective  commands.  This 
list  will  embrace  ihe  regiment,  company,  date  of  enlistment,  and 
age  of   each   subi-titu'e,   with  the  name  and  post-office  of   the 


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principal.  They  will  also,  in  the  same  manner,  furnish  a  monthly 
roll  of  all  deserters  and  absentees  without  leave.  This  will  be 
arranged  according  to  the  county  and  congressional  district  tft 
which  the  parties  belong,  and  will  set  forth  the  time  and  plac© 
of  desertion  in  each  case.* 

II.  All  officers,  charged  by  commanding  gtincrals  with  th© 
duty  of  arresting  and  returning  deserters  and  absentees,  will  re- 
port to  the  commandant  of  conscripts  in  the  respective  States  to. 
which  such  officers  are  sent,  and  will  co-operate  generally  with 
enrolling;  officers  in  the  discharge  of  the  duties  assigned  to  thcm» 

III.  The  following  act  of  Congress  is  published  fur  the  infor- 
mation of  all  concerned : 

"  Every  person,  not  subject  to  tlie  Rules  and  Articles  of  War^ 
w^ho  shall  procuro  or  entice  a  soldier  of  the  Confederate  States  to 
desert,  or  who  shr*!!  purchase  from  any  soldier  his  arms,  unifona, 
clothing,  or  any  part  thereof,  shall^  upon  legal  conviction,  be 
fined  at  the  discretion  of  the  coart  having  cogniaancs  of  the 
same,  in  any  sum  not  exceeding  three  hundred  dollars,  and  ba 
imprisoned  not  exceeding  one  year/' 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
A-(^Jt(iunt  and  Inspector  Generala 


Ci-ENERAL  ORDERS,    V       Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'i/s  Offick 

No.  123.  )  Bichmondy  September  10,  1863. 

The  following  Order  is  published  for  the  iafoimatioa  of  all 
Goncerngd  : 

Exchange  Notics,  No.  6. 

The  following  Confederate  officers  and  men,  captured  at  Yicks- 
burg.  Miss.,  July  4,  1863  ;  and  subseciueatlj  paroled,  have  beers, 
duly  exchanged,  and  are  hereby  so  declared  : 

1.  The  of!ieers  and  men  of  Gen.  C.  L.  Stephenson's  divisioav 

2.  The  officers  and  men  of  Gen.  Bowen's  division.  / 

3.  The  olTicers  and  men  of  Brig.  Gen.  Moors's  brigade. 

4.  The  officers  and  aien  of  the  2d  Texas  regim2nt. 

5.  The  officers  and  men  of  V/aul's  legion. 

6.  Also,  all  Confederate  officers  and  men  who  have  beea  ds- 

*  Modified  by  Par.  VII.,  General  Orders,  No.  12Cv 


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livered  at  City  Point  at  any  time  previous  to  July  25tli,  1863, 
have  been  duly  exchanged,  and  are  hereby  so  declared. 

Ro.    OULD, 

JigenL  of  Exchange. 
Richmond,  Sept.  12,  18G3. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS, 


Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 


No.  124.  3  Richmond,  Sepiemher  22,  1863. 

I*  Potatoes  (sweet,)  gathered  under  the  tax  law  by  commissa- 
ries and  quartermasters,  at  or  within  reach  of  places  whore  hos- 
pitals arc  located,  will  be  transferred  (invoices  and  receipts  be- 
ing given)  to  the  medical  officers  in  charge  of  the  hospitals,  to 
be  cared  for  and  secured  against  the  influences  of  frost,  &g.,  for 
the  use  of  the  sick.  Or  f\irmers,  when  the  hospitals  are  more 
convenient  of  access  than  the  depots,  may  deliver  their  potatoes 
(tax  in  kind)  to  the  medical  oftcer  in  charge,  taking  receipts, 
which  will  be  acknowledged  by  the  tax  agent. 

II.  The  pay  of  surgeons  (private  physici.ans)  employed  under 
General  Orders,  No.  82,  Adjutant  and  Inspector  General's  of- 
fice, of  1862,  is  increased  to  six  dollars  per  diem,  until  further 
orders. 

III.  "  Assistant  Medical  Directors"  and  "Assistant  Medical 
Inspectors"  not  being  authorized,  the  titles  will  not  be  used. 

IV.  The  extra  pay  allowed  soldiers  detailed  for  duty  as  com- 
missary sergeants  by  the  act  of  Congress,  approved  May  1,  1863, 
will  be  paid  upon  the  muster  and  pay  rolls  of  the  companies  to 
which  they  belong,  by  the  quartermaster  charged  with  the  duty 
of  paying  troops. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutani-and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  )  Adj't  and  Ixsp'r  Genu's  Office, 

No.  125.  ^  Richmond,  September,  1863. 

I.  Information  having  been  received  of  repeated  misconstruc- 
tions And  violations  of  paragraph  XII,  General  Orders,  No.  82, 
1^62,  it  is  reiterated  that  no  persons  liable  to  conscription  will 


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be  permitted  under  any  olrcumstances  to  volunteer  in  regiments, 
battalions  or  companies  orcranized  since  the  16th  of  April,  18G2, 
except  such  as  ^Tcre  organized  under  the  provisions  of  the  act  of 
Congress  of  that  date,  entitled  "  an  act  further  to  provide  for  the 
public  defence." 

II.  No  authority  exists  for  organizing  new  companies  out  of 
companies  or  portions  of  companies  now  in  service. 

III.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  commandants  of  conscripts,  on 
information  of  persons  being  received  into  companies  contrary  to 
the  provisions  of  this  order,  to  make  immediate  requisition  for 
euch  persons  on  the  olficer  commanding,  and  on  failure  of  the 
officer  to  return  the  persons  so  received  to  the  camp  of  instruc- 
tion, the  commandant  shall  report  the  matter,  with  the  fiicts  of 
the  case,  to  the  Bureau  of  Conscription,  to  be  decided  by  this 
department. 

IV.  No  officer  commanding,  \Yhose  company  reaches  the  maxi- 
mum allowed  by  regulations,  shall  be  permitted  to  receive  re- 
cruits, either  as  volunteers  or  in  any  other  form. 

V.  No  oflBcer  commanding  shall  accept,  or  muster  in  persons 
of  conscript  age,  unless  such  person  shall  first  exhibit  a  certiii- 
cate  approved  by  an  enrolling  officer,  stating  that  he  has  volun- 
teered and  selected  his  company,  which  company  is  allowed  to 
receive  recruits. 

VI.  The  Bureau  of  Conscription  is  charged  with  the  establish- 
ment of  such  regulations  as  will  enforce  this  order. 

yil.  Paragraph  I,  General  Orders,  No.  122,  September  II, 
1803,  is  so  modified  as  to  read  as  follows  : 

Commanding  officers  of  regiments,  battalions,  &c.,  will  imme- 
diately on  receipt  hereof,  cause  to  be  made  out  and  forv/arded 
through  proper  channels  to  Colonel  J.  S.  Preston,  Chief  of  the 
Bureau  of  Conscription,  a  complete  list  of  all  persons  received  as 
Hubstitutes  in  the  army  in  their  respective  commands.  This  list 
will  embrace  the  regiment,  company,  date  of  enlistment  and  age 
of  such  substitute,  with  the  name,  post  office,  and  date  of  enlist- 
ment of  the  principal.  It  will  also  state  whether  the  substitute  is 
now  serving,  or  has  died  or  been  killed  while  in,  or  discharged  from 
service,  or  whether  he  has  deserted,  with  tlie  d'lte  and  circumstances 
of  such  death,  discharge  or  desertion.  They  will  also,  in  the 
same  manner,  furnish  a  monthly  roll  of  all  deserters  and  absen- 
tees without  leave.  This  roll  will  be  arranged  according  to  the 
county  and  congressional  district  to  which  the  parties  belong, 
and  will  set  forth  the  time  and  place  of  desertion  in  each  case. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General, 


153 

GENERAL  ORDERS,  1     '      Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  126.  j  Richmond,  September  28,  18G3. 

I.  In  order  to  avoid  all  diflBculty  with  respect  to  payment  of 
oHicers  absent  from  their  commands^^and  who  have  not  received 
commissions  or  letters  of  appointment,  it  is  ordered,  that  all  such 
officers  shall,  before  leaving  their  companies,  be  furnished  ■with 
a  transcript  from  the  muster  rolls,  or  a  certificate  in  lieu  thereof, 
as  may  be  convenient ;  setting  out  the  full  name,  rank  and  date 
of  such  officer,  and  that  he  is  borne  on  the  muster  roll  as  such. 
These  transcripts  or  certificates  will  be  signed  by  the  command- 
in  sj  officer  of  the  regiment  and  company,  and  will  be  equivalent 
with  the  pay  officer  to  the  commission  or  letter  of  appointment 
referred  to  in  paragraph  I,  General  Orders,  No.  121,  of  18C3. 
This  provision,  however,  is  not  designed  to  dispense  with  the 
requirements  of  General  Orders,  No.  28,  pars.  II  and  111,  cur- 
rent series. 

II.  Paragraph  I,  General  Orders,  No.  IIG,  Adjutant  and  In- 
spector General's  Office,  is  so  modified  as  to  read  as  follows  : 

"  Generals,  or  other  oflBcers  commanding  departments,  armies 
in  the  field,  posts  or  garrisons,  will  cause  all  deserters,  stragglers 
or  other  absentees  from  duty,  and  all  persons  liable  to  military 
service,  found  within  their  lines,  and  not  belonging  to  their  com- 
mand, to  be  forthwith  arrested  and  turned  over  to  the  nearest 
enrolling  officer,  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  forward  such  absen- 
tees to  their  proper  commands  ;  or  in  case  of  conscripts,  to  as- 
sign them  to  service,  at  the  discretion  of  the  commandant  of 
conscripts  of  the  State. ^' 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Afljuiant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,]         Aoj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office,' 

No.  127.  j  Richmond,  September  29,  18G3. 

In  view  of  the  importance  of  pressing  the  home  production  of 
nitre,  the  workmen  in  exposed  districts  will  be  called  from  their 
work  f(jr  locnl  defence  only  in  cases  of  extreme  military  urgency, 
and  then  only  by  the  General  commanding  the  district,  by  aa 
order  to  the  officer  in  charge. 

In  the   nitre   districts    la'ely  overrun,    the  workmen  will  be 
returned  to  their  work,  and  all  reasonable  facilities  for  resuming 
operations  will  be  extended  by  military  ofticers. 
]Jy  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


154 


GENERAL  ORDERS, 

No.  128. 


Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 
Richmondy  Va.,  Sept.  30, 1863. 


all  concerned,  and  the  speci.v.  .cv^v..^- 
the  government  is  directed  thereto  : 

11.  Schedule  of  Prices  established  by  the  Hoard  of  Commissioners  of  the 
State  of  South  Carolina,  under  the  act  of  Congress  of  the  Confed- 
erate States  "  to  regulate  i77ipressmeHts  ;" 


ARTICLES. 

H 

■< 

D 

a- 

DESCRIPTION. 

QUANTITY. 

Apples,  dried, 

Good, 

Peeled,  . 

Per  bush.  28  lbs 

.    $3  00 

Apples,  dried, 

Uiipeeled, 

Per  bush.  28  lbs 

,.      2  00 

Axes, 

Willi  handles, 

Each, 

5  00 

Axes, 

Without  handles,  . 

Each, 

4  00 

Bacon,     . 

Sides, 

Per  pounrl, 

75 

Bacon, 

Hams,     . 

Per  pound,* 

70 

Bacon, 

Shoulders, 

Per  pound. 

65 

Bacon, 

Jowls,     . 

Per  pound. 

40 

Beans, 

White  or  cornfield, 

Per  bushel. 

3  00 

Brandy,    . 

Apple,    . 

Per  {gallon, 

4  00 

Brandy,    . 

Peach,    . 

Per  gallon. 

5  00 

Beef, 

Fresh,  net. 

Per  ])ound, 

25 

Beef, 

Salt  or  corned. 

Per  pound, 

50 

Beef  Cattle,     . 

Gross,     . 

Per  pound. 

18 

Candles,  . 

Tallow, 

Per  pound, 

1   00 

Chains,    . 

Trace,     . 

Per  pair,  . 

2  50 

Cloth,       .        • 

Woolen,  for  soldiers' 
clothes,  J  y'd  wide, 
10  oz.  to  y'd,  &  pro 

# 

rata  as   to  greater 
or    less   weight  or 

width,  . 

Per  yard, . 

4  00 

Coffee,     . 

a 

Rio, 

Per  pound, 

3  00 

Corn, 

(( 

Unshelled, 

Per  bush.  70  lb. 

i       1   95 

Corn, 

li 

Shelleil,    sacks     not 

■" 

included. 

Per  bush.  56  lb. 

J.      2  00 

Corn  Meal, 

(( 

Sacks  not  included. 

Per  bush.  50  lb. 

5.      2  00 

Drills,      . 

u 

Cotton,  |-  yard  wide, 

3  yards  to  pound, 

Per  yard, . 

05 

155 


ARTICI 

CO 
QUALITY. 

DESCRIPTIC 

)N.                    QUANTITY. 

Flour, 

.   Good, 

Extra  Family 

.    Perbbl  196  lbs 

.  $12  00 

Flour. 

ii 

Extra  Family 

,         .    Per  sack  98  lbs 

.      11  00 

Flour, 

It 

Superfine, 

.    Perbbl  196  lbs 

20  00 

Flour, 

u 

Supeifine, 

.    Per  sack  98  lbs 

.      10  00 

Flour, 

(( 

Fine, 

.    Perbbl  196  lbs 

.      18  00 

Flour, 

u 

Fine, 

.  4^er  sack  98  lbs 

9  00 

Fodder, 

u 

Baled,     . 

.    Per  100  pound 

s       2  50 

Fodder, 

u 

Unbaled, 

.    Per  100  pound 

s       2  00 

Hats, 

u 

Wool,      . 

.    Each, 

3  25 

Hay,         . 

u 

Baled,     . 

.    Per  100  pound 

^       1  50 

Hay, 

ti 

Unbaled, 

.    Per  100  i)ound 

s,      1  25 

Hogs, 

u 

Net, 

.    Per  pound. 

35 

Hogs, 

(C 

Gross, 

.    Per  pound. 

25 

Hides, 

l( 

Dry,         . 

.    Per  pound. 

.       1  25 

Hides, 

u 

Green,    . 

.    Per  i)ound, 

50 

Horses, 

u 

Artillery,  Ist  ( 

:lass.     Per  head. 

.   oOO  00 

Horses, 

u 

Artillery,  2d  ( 

:lass.     Per  bead. 

.   100  00 

Iron, 

l( 

Pig,         .         . 

.    Per  ton  2240  lb 

=.    85  00 

Iron, 

l( 

Square  or  Roi 

jnd,  .    Per  ton  2240  lb 

5.  150  00 

Iron, 

It 

Flat  or  Band, 

.    Per  ton  2240  lb 

5.  320  00 

Iron, 

(( 

Hoop, 

.    Per  ton  2240  lb 

5.  140  00 

Iron, 

u 

Boiler  Plate, 

.    Per  ton  2240  lb 

3   300  00 

Iron, 

it 

Serviceable  R 

.  R.,      Per  ton  2240  lb 

'.  175  00 

Iron, 

u 

Ujinservic'ble 

R.  R.  Per  ton  2240  lb 

5.    75  00 

Jeans, 

(( 

Wool,  domesti 

c,      .    Per  yard,  . 

.       4  00 

Kettles, 

(. 

Camp,  iron,    . 

.   Each, 

.       5  00 

Lard,      . 

11 

Clean,     . 

.    Per  poiuid. 

75 

Leather, 

»£ 

Sole, 

.    Per  i>ound. 

2  50 

Leather, 

(( 

Upper,    . 

.     Per  pound, 

.       3  25 

Leather, 

" 

Harness, 

.    Per  pound, 

3  GO 

Molasses, 

li 

Cane, 

.    Per  gallon, 

5  00 

Molasses, 

<( 

Sorghum, 

.    Per  gallon. 

3  00 

Mules,     . 

u 

1st  class. 

.    Per  head, 

100  00 

Mules, 

(( 

2d  class, 

.    Per  bead. 

350  00 

Mules,     . 

u 

3d  class. 

.    Per  head. 

250  00 

Oats, 

(( 

Sheaf,  unbale 

J,       .    Per  100  pounds 

«.      2  00 

Oats, 

n 

Sheaf,  baled, . 

.    Per  100  pounds 

i.      2  50 

Oat>. 

11 

Shelled,  . 

.    Per  bush.  34  1b: 

».      1  50 

Osnaburg 

5,         .          " 

Cotton,  1  yard 

wide. 

7  oz.  to  yard 

.    Per  yard, . 

60 

O.snaburg 

S,         .           " 

Cotton,  I  yard 

wide, 

h  oz.  to  yard 

.    Per  yard,  . 

70 

Peas. 

K 

Co  w , 

.    Pf'r  l.u^ll.  r,o  ||,s 

2  (JO 

PotJ^tne-", 

l( 

Irish, 

.    PerbuKh.  60lbg 

2  00 

156 


ARTICLES. 

DESCRIPTION. 

QUALITY. 

Potatoes, 

Good, 

Sweet,    . 

Per  bush.  60  lbs 

$1  00 

Peaches, dried, 

Peeled,  . 

Per  bush.  38  lbs 

5  00 

Peaches,  dried, 

K 

Unpeeled, 

Per  bush.  38  lbs 

3  00 

Pork, 

Fresh,     . 

Per  pound. 

35 

Pork, 

Salt, 

Per  pound, 

55 

Pasturage, 

// 

Cattle  and  horses 

near  city, 

Per  head  prm'th 

3  00 

Pasturage, 

({ 

Interior, 

Per  head  prm'th 

1  50 

Rice, 

New, 

Per  pound. 

15 

Rice, 

" 

Old, 

Per  pound, 

12 

Rye, 

Good, 

Per  bush.  56  lbs. 

2  50 

Sacks, 

" 

Two  bush,  osnab^rg. 

Each, 

1  00 

Shirting,  . 

" 

Cotton,  f  yard  wide. 

4J  yards  to  pound, 

Per  yard,  . 

50 

Shirting,  . 

Cotton,  ^  yard  wide. 

3|  yards  to  pound, 

Per  yard. 

60 

Cotton  Stripes, 

Three  yards  to  lb. 

Per  yard, 

75 

Salt, 

Coast, 

Per  bush.  50  lbs. 

15  00 

Salt, 

Liverpool, 

Per  bush.  50  lbs. 

30  00 

Shoes, 

Army,     , 

Per  pair,  . 

8  00 

Shoe  Thread,  . 

Flax,       . 

Per  pound. 

3  00 

Socks, 

Soldiers',  wool, 

Per  pair,   . 

1  25 

Sheep,     . 

Fat, 

Per  head, 

15  00 

Sugar, 

Brown,  common,    . 

Per  pound. 

90 

Sugar, 

Brown,  common,    . 

Per  pound. 

SO 

Soap, 

Hard,      . 

Per  pound, 

40 

Soap, 

Soft,        . 

Per  pound,       ^ 

20 

Shucks,    . 

Baled,.    ... 

Per  100  pounds, 

1  50 

Shucks,    . 

Unbaled, 

Per  100  pounds, 

1  25 

Tea, 

Black,     . 

Per  pound. 

5  00 

Tea, 

Green,     .          . 

Per  pound. 

7  00 

Tent  Cloth,      . 

Cotton,  10  oz.  to  y'd, 

Per  yard,  . 

90 

Tallow,  . 

Clean,     . 

Per  pound. 

80 

Vinegar, . 

Cider,     . 

Per  gallon, 

1  00 

Vinegar,  . 

Mawufactured, 

Per  gallon. 

75 

Whiskey, 

Good, 

Per  galhm. 

4  00 

Wheat,     . 

First  rate,  white,    . 

Per  "bush.  GO  lbs. 

4  00 

Wheat,    . 

Fair, 

Per  bush.  GO  lbs. 

3  50 

Wheat,    .  -      . 

Ordinary, 

Per  bush.  60  lbs. 

3  00 

Wheat  Straw, 

Baled,     . 

Per  100  pounds, 

60 

Wheat  Straw, 

(( 

Unbaled, 

Per  100  pounds, 

50 

Wool,       . 

Washed, 

Per  pound. 

3  75 

Wool,       . 

Unwashed,     . 

Per  pound, 

3  00 

Wagons,.. 

(( 

Woodax.4  hoy.,  new 

Fnch, 

250  00 

157 


ARTICLES. 


Wagons, . 
Wagons,  . 
Wagons, . 
Yarn, 


Good. 


DESCRIPTION. 


Iron  axle,  4  hor.  new- 
Wood  ax.  2  hor.  new 
Iron  ax.  2  hor.  rew, 
Cotton,   . 


QUANTITY. 


Each, 
Eacli, 
Each, 
Per  bunch  5  lbs. 


$300  00 

175  00 

225  00 

6  00 


Hire  of  Labor,  Teams,   Wagons  and  Horses. 


DESCRIPTION, 


Baling  long   forage. 

Shelling  and  sacking  corn,  sacks  fur- 
ni.shed  by  government, 

Hauling,  .... 

Hire  of  tM'o-horse  team,  wagon  and 
driver,  rations  furnished  by  owner,  - 

Hire  of  two-horse  team,  wagon  and 
driver,  rations  furnished  by  govern- 
ment, -  ...  - 

Hire  of  fonrhorse  team,  wagon  and 
driver,  rations  furnithed  by  ownei,   - 

Hire  of  four-horse  team,  wagon  and 
driver,  rations  furnished  by  govern- 
ment, - 

Hire  of  six-hor.se  team,  wagon  and 
driver,  rations  furnished  by  owner,  - 

Hire  of  six-horse  team,  wagon  and 
driver,  rations  furnished  by  govern- 
ment, -  .  -  .  - 

Hire  of  laborer,  rations  furnished  by 
owner,  .... 

Hire  of  laborer,  rations  furnished  by 
government,   .... 

Hire  of  laborer,  rations  furnished  by 
owner,  .... 

Hire  of  laborer,  rations  furnished  by 
government,   -  -  .  - 


QUANTITY. 


Per  100  pounds, 

"    bush,  of  56  lbs, 
"    100  lbs.  per  ml. 

"    day, 


"  day, 

»  day, 

"  day, 

"  day, 


"  day, 

"  day, 

"  month, 

"  month. 


$0  3<J 

05 
03 

7  00 


5 

00 

10 

00 

6 

50 

12 

00 

8 

00 

1 

50 

1 

00 

30 

00 

15 

00 

The  undersigned,  commissioners  and  appraisers,  under  the  act 
of  Congress  for  regulating  the  impressments  for  South  Carolina, 
have  adopted  the  foregoing  schedule  of  prices,  which  they  think 
is  fair  and  equitable  under  existing  circiimstaucea.  They  hope 
that  the  prodfucer  will  be  willing  not  only  to  tell  to  tho  goYeuo- 


158 

ment  at  tliose  prices,  but  to  private  individuals,  and  especially 
to  the  families  of  soldiers  who  are  in  the  service  of  their  country. 
The  present  is  no  time  for  those  who  are  at  home  to  be  specula- 
ting on  the  necessities  of  a  bleeding  country.  They  should  con- 
sider that  whilst  the  patriotic  and  gallant  soldier  in  the  army  is 
offering  his  blood  and  his  life  as  a  sacrifice  for  independence,  that 
they,  too,  are  called  upon  to  make  sacrifices  and  forego  all  exor- 
bitant profits  on  what  they  have  to  sell.  lie  who  is  unwilling  to 
do  80  is  unworthy  of  his  country  and  the  cause  in  which  she  is 
engaged. 

The  commissioners  would  respectfully  suggest  to  the  quarter- 
masters and  commissaries  in  South  Carolina,  that  they  should  not 
impress  provisions  which  have  been  purchased  for  family  supplies 
and  immediate  consumption,  nor  should  they  interfere  with  pur- 
chases made  at  government  prices,  on  their  way  to  market,  in  the 
hands  of  a  fair  retail  dealer,  who  is  willing  to  sell  at  a  moderate 
profit,  to  supply  the  wants  of  the  poor  in  the  cities,  towns  and 
villages  of  the  State. 

The  foregoing  schedule  of  prices  will  continue  in  force  for  two 
months,  unless  sooner  revised. 

B.  F.  Perry, 
A.  M.  Martin, 
Commissioners, 

Columbia,  S.  C,  September  15,  1863. 


By  order. 


S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


Buckingham,  Oct.  1,  1863. 
lion.  James  A.  Seddon  : 

Sir — As  there  occurred  several  inaccuracies  in  publishing 
our  schedule  A,  dated  llichmond,  October  1st,  1803,  wc  respect- 
fully submit  the  following  corrections.  We  trust,  as  the  mis- 
takes arc  so  obvious,  that  the  good  sense  of  the  public  as  well  as 
of  our  impressing  agents,  enabled  them  in  delecting  to  correct 
them.  In  August  we  assessed  prime  whitcand  red  wheat  at  ^5 
pel'  bushel,  and  good  superfine  flour  at  $25  per  barrel.  At  our 
meeting  the  24th  of  September,  the  board  re  adopted  in  full  our 
schedule  of  August,  with  a  few  additions.  Therefore  we  retain- 
ed our  former  valuation  of  superjftne  jlour.  But  we  added  fine 
flour,  which  we  assessed  at  $22  per  barrel,  and  extra  superfine 
flour  at  %1i)  50  per  barrel,  and  family  flour  at  $28  per  barrel — 
each  weighing  1*JG  pounds.  We  also  added  good,  fresh  fat  pork, 
at  forty-five  cents  per  pound  net  we\ght.  Not  apprehending  the 
developing  of  any  facts  of  suftici«snt  importance  to  require  a 
change  in  our  valuations  for  at  least  two  months,  we  adopted 


159 


pchodules  A  and  B,  as  adjusted  in  Anf!:ust,  wiih  tlie  forogoing 
additions,  as  the  govornnient  rates  for  the  ensuing  two  inonthn* 
We  therefore  submit  the  August  schedules  marked  A  and  B, 
with  the  foregoing  stated  additions  and  corrections,  and  request 
their  republication,  with  the  understanding  tliat  the  prices  there- 
in indicated  are  to  remain  for  the  mouths  of  October  and  Novem- 
ber, as  agreed  upon  when  we  presented  to  you  our  last  report. 
If  in  the  mean  time  any  additions  to  the  number  of  articles  as- 
sessed should  be  desirable,  we  will  send  in  a  supplemental  sched- 
ule embracing  them.  Most  respectfully, 

E.  AV.   IIUBARD, 
Hob't  GlBBON-Ey, 
Commissioners  for  Va, 


GENERAL  ORDERS, 
No.  129. 


Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 
Richmond,  Oct.  1,  18G3. 


The  following  schedules  present  the  maxi  num  prices  to  be  paid 
for  the  articles  appraised,  at  all  cities  and  usual  places  of  sale,  and 
when  impressed  elsewhere,  the  same  prices  are  to  be  paid  elsewhere, 
less  tiie  cost  of  transportation  to  the  city  or  usual  place  of  sale  to 
which  the  article  would  go  ordinarily  for  sale  from  that  neigh- 
borhood, or  less  the  cost  of  transportation  to  the  point  at  which 
the  government  needs  the  article,  and  wishes  it  to  be  sent :  Pro- 
vided, that  in  no  case  the  auiount  deducted  for  transportation  as 
above  shall  exceed  25  ceyts  per  bushel  for  grain,  and  25  cents  per 
cwt.  for  long  forage,  fli)ur,  bacon,  iron,  &o.  In  addition  to  the 
established  price  of  transportation,  the  government  to  pay  all 
legal  tolls,  and,  where  farmers  cannot  procure  nails  for  baling 
forage,  government  to  furnish  the  same  at  cost,  which  will  be  de- 
ducted from  the  established  price  of  baling: 

Schedule  A. 


ARTICLE. 

< 

DESCRIPTION. 

QUANTITY. 

PRICE. 

1    Wheat, 

Prime. 

Wliite  or  rati. 

Pr  bush  of     60  !bs 

^  T)  00 

2    Flour,       ^ 

Good, 

Fine, 

Prbarrclof  196  lbs. 

2-2  00 

" 

a 

.Superfine, 

u                  ((            u 

2r)  00 

(( 

t( 

Kx.  snp'rfine 

Cl                           ((                  (( 

26  50 

u 

u 

Family, 

il                             ((                    CI 

28  00 

3  Corn, 

Prime. 

VVli'eoryellw 

Pr  bush  of     06  lbs. 

4  00 

4  Unshelled  corn, 

(( 

U                           l( 

''         "        56  Ib.s. 

•3  95 

0  Corn  meal, 

Good, 

"          «'        DO  Ibi. 

4  20 

IGO 
Schedule  A. — Continued. 


ARTICLE, 

< 

DESCRIPTION. 

(QUANTITY. 

PRICE. 

6  Rye, 

Prime, 

Per  bush  of  56  lbs. 

$  3  20 

7  Cleaned  oats, 

u 

"         "        32  lbs. 

2  00 

8  Wheat  bran, 

Good, 

"        17  lbs. 

50 

9  Shorts, 

u 

»         "        22  lbs. 

70 

10  Brown  stuff, 

a 

"          »        28  lbs. 

90 

11    Ship  stuff', 

(1 

"         «        37  lbs. 

1  40 

12  Bacon, 

(f 

Hog  round, 

Per  pound, 

1  00 

13  Salt  pork, 

(( 

i; 

1  00 

Fresh  pork, 

Fat  & 

good, 

Per  lb.  net  weight, 

45 

14  Lard, 

Good, 

P«r  pound, 

1  00 

15  'Horses, 

Istcl's 

Artillery,  &c. 

Av'ge  price  pr  head 

350  00 

16  Wool, 

Fair  or 

■ 

Mer'o 

Washed, 

Per  pound. 

3  00 

17  Wool, 

Fair  or 

Mer'o 

Unwashed, 

u 

2  00 

18  Peas, 

Good, 

Per  bush  of  60  lbs. 

4  00 

19   Beans, 

(1 

u                        ((       a 

4  00 

20  Potatoes, 

(( 

Irish, 

i( 

4  00 

21   Potiitoes, 

(( 

Sweet, 

(( 

5  00 

22  Onions, 

Good, 

"         "        60  lbs 

5  00 

23  Dried  peaches, 

li 

Pealed, 

"           of  38  lbs. 

8  00 

24  Dried  peaches. 

•  c 

Unpealed, 

•    "           of  38  lbs. 

4  50 

25  Dried  apples, 

u 

Pealed,                     "           of  28  lbs. 

3  00 

2G  Hay,  baled, 

Timothy  or 

(( 

clover,          jPer  100  pounds, 

3  00 

27  Hay,  baled. 

Orchard  or 

(( 

herd  grass, 

((             (( 

3  00 

28  Hay,  unbaled, 

Orchard  or 

u 

herd  grass, 

((                 a 

2  70 

29  Sh'foats,  baled, 

u 

\              U                           (( 

4  00 

30  Sh'foats,  unb'd. 

u 

((                (( 

3  70 

31    Blade  fod'r,  b'd. 

(( 

a                 (( 

3  00 

32  Bl  fodder,  nnb'd 

(1 

a                 a 

2   70 

33   Shucks,  baled. 

u 

a                 a 

2  00 

34  Shucks,  unb'd, 

(( 

a                a 

1   70 

35  Wheat  straw, 

•  m 

baled, 

a 

(c                a 

1  00 

36  Wheat  straw, 

unbaled, 

cc 

a                 u 

,    70 

37  Pasturage, 

Good, 

Interior,            Per  head  pr  month, 

3  00 

38      ■    " 

Sup'r, 

(I                                           ((                         u 

4  00 

39         " 

1st  r'te 

u 

((                   a 

5  00 

161 

Schedule  A. — Continued. 


ARTICLES. 

H 

< 

DESCRII'TION. 

QUANTITY. 

PRICE. 

40  Pasturage, 

Good, 

Near  cities. 

Per  head  pr  month, 

.$  5  00 

41          '♦ 

Sup'r, 

a 

((                          u 

6  00 

42         " 

Ist  r"te 

(( 

a                (( 

7  00 

43  Salt, 

Good, 

■ 

Per  bush  of  50  lbs. 

5  00 

44  Soap, 

u 

Per  ]5(wind, 

40 

45  Candles, 

1( 

Tallow, 

(I 

1  00 

46  Vinegar, 

(C 

Cider, 

Per  gallon. 

1  00 

47  Whiskey, 

(( 

Trade, 

(1 

3  00 

48  Sugar, 

(t 

BroM-n, 

Per  pound, 

1  00 

49  Molasses, 

k( 

New  Orleans, 

Per  gallon, 

8  00 

50  Rice, 

a 

Per  pound, 

20 

51   Coftee, 

u 

Rio, 

" 

3  00 

52  Tea, 

a 

Trade, 

u 

7  00 

53  Vinegar, 

u 

Manufact'd, 

Per  gallon. 

50 

54  Pig  iron, 

u 

No.  1  quality. 

Per  ton, 

125  00 

55   Pig  iron, 

u 

No.  2 

u 

110  00 

56  Pig  iron. 

'i 

No.  3       " 

(( 

100  00 

57  Bloom  iron, 

(( 

i( 

ISO  00 

58  Smith's  iron. 

Round,  plate 

(C 

and  bar, 

Per  ton, 

380  00 

59  Railroad  iron. 

•  li 

(( 

190  00 

60  Leather, 

C( 

Harness, 

Per  pound. 

2  60 

61         " 

u 

Sole, 

(I 

2  40 

62 

(( 

Upper, 

u 

2  «0 

63  Beef  cattle. 

u 

Gross  weight. 

Per  100  pottiids, 

16  00 

64 

Sup'r, 

(1            (( 

a                     u 

18  on 

65          " 

Ut  r'te 

((              (; 

Cl                       H 

)>0  00 

66  Sheep, 

Fair, 

Per  head, 

30  00 

67  Army  woollen 

cloth,  '}  yd. 

Good, 

10  oz.  per  yd. 

Per  yard, 

4  50 

68  Army  woollen 

Pro  rata  as  to 

cloth. 

(< 

greater  or  less 

Width  or  weight, 

69  Army  woollen 

cloth,  6  4  yd. 

(( 

2C  oz.  per  yd. 

Per  yard. 

9  00 

70  Army  woollen 

Pro  rata  as  to 

cloth, 

(t 

greater  or  less 

Width  or  weight, 

71   Flannels,          4 

u 

6  oz.  per  yd. 

Per  yard, 

3  00 

72  Cotton  shirt'g,  ^ 

(( 

1.^  yds.  to  lb. 

" 

4i 

73         -           "        i 

(( 

■4  yds.  to  lb. 

a 

50 

74  Cotton  sheet- 

ings, 4-4, 

u 

3  yds.  to  lb. 

(( 

60 

75  Cotton  pzna- 

burgs,  1, 

« 

6  oz.  per  yd. 

60 

162 
Schedule  A — Continued. 


>< 

ARTICLE. 

1-3 

< 

DESCRirTION. 

QUANTITY. 

PRICE. 

76  Cotton  ozna- 

bnrgs,  -}, 

" 

S  oz.  per  yd. 

Per  yard. 

$      70 

77  Cotton  drills,  -g^, 

(( 

3  yds,  to  lb. 

(( 

70 

78  Cotton  shirting 

stripes. 

cc 

3  yds.  to  lb. 

C( 

70 

79  Cotton  tent 

cloths, 

u 

10  oz.  to  yd. 

C( 

87 

80* 

81   Cotton  warps, 

(( 

Per  pound, 

1   63 

82  Army  shoes',' 

(( 

Per  ])air, 

10  00 

83  Shoe  thread, 

1( 

Per  pound, 

2  00 

84  Wool  socks  for 

men, 

I' 

Per  pair, 

1  25 

85  Mules, 

Ist  r"te 

Wagon,  Sec. 

Av'e  price  pr  bead, 

300  00 

In  assessing  the  average  value  of  "  first  class  artillery  and 
wagon  horses  at  $350,"  vre  designed  that  the  term  should  be  ac- 
cepted and  acted  upon  accord-ng  to  its  obvious  common  sense 
import.  In  other  words,  that  horses  should  be  selected,  and  then 
impressed  accordingly  as  their  working  qualities  and  adaptation 
to  army  service,  together  with  their  intrinsic  value,  would  war- 
rant a  judicious  purchaser  in  considering  them  as  coming  within 
tiie  contemplation  of  the  commissitners  when  they  assessed  the 
average  value  of  such  horses  as  the  government  needed,  at  $350. 
But  cases  might  arise,  however,  when  the  public  exigencies  would 
be  so  urgent  as  to  demand  that  al'  horses  at  hand  should  be  im- 
pressed. Yet  under  ordinary  circumstances,  when  family  or  ex- 
tra blooded  horses,  or  brood  mares  of  adihitted  high  imlue  are  im- 
pressed, we  respectfully  suggest  to  the  Secretary  of  War  to  have 
instructions  forwarded  to  the  impressing  offieers  to  propose  and 
allow  the  owners  to  .whstihile  in  their  stead  such  strong,  sound 
and  serviceable  horses  or  mules  as  shall  be  considered  and  valued 
by  competent  and  disinterested  parties  as  first  class  artillery 
horses,  or  first  rate  wagon  mules. 

The  term  "average  value  per  hend"  was  used  in  contradistinc- 
tion to  a  fixed  and  uniform  price  for  each  horse  or  mule.  We 
supposed  that  in  impressing  a  number  of  horses  or  mules,  whe- 
ther owned   by  several  persons,  or   one  individual,  that  some 


■^  On  the  above  enumerated  cotton  cloths,  pro  rata  as  to  greater 
or  less  widtii  or  weight. 


163 

rniglifc  be  estimated  r.t  i|250,  or  even  at  losp,  ami  others  at  differ- 
ent advjinoed  rates,  according  to  their  worth,  up  as  hif!;h  as  $450, 
or  above  that  amount — thus  making  an  average  value  or  price  for 
a  Munher  of  good,  sound  and  efficient  horses,  $350  each,  and 
mules  $oOO  each. 

In  illustration  of  our  vievrs,  -we  vrill  add,  that  a  horse  with 
only  one  eye  sound,  might,  in  all  other  respects,  be  classed  as  .i 
first  rate  artillery  hoi-se,  yet  the  loss  of  one  eye  would  justly  and 
considerably  curtail  his  value.  So  a  horse  from  10  to  18  years  of 
age  might  he  deemed  in  all  other  particulars  as  a  first  class  artil- 
lery horse,  but  of  courso,  however  ellicient  or  able  to  render  good 
service  for  a  year  or  so,  yet  his  advanced  age  would  justly  and 
materially  impair  his  value.  Any  horse,  however  he  may  ap- 
proximate the  standard  of  a  first  class  artillery  horse,  must,  ac- 
cording to  deticiencios,  fall  below  the  masimuai  price ;  and  as 
few  comparatively  exactly  come  up  to  the  standard,  and  therefore 
are  entitled  to  the  maximum  price,  so  of  course  in  all  other  in- 
f-tances  the  price  should  be  proportionately  reduced,  as  imperfec-" 
tious  place  them  below  ths  standard  of  first  class,  &c. 

E.    W.    IIUBAUD, 
Koj\EKT    GlCBOxNEY, 

(Jt'xmiis^io'iws  for  Fa, 


lU 


Schedule  B. — Bire  of  Labor ^  Teams,  Wagons  and  Drivers. 


» 

Baling  long  forage, 

QUANTITY  &  TIME. 

PRICE. 

1. 

Per  100  lbs. 

$      30 

■2. 

Shelling  and  bagging  corn,  sacks   fur- 

nished by  the  government,     . 

u 

56  " 

05 

3. 

Hauling,               .... 

u 

cwt.  p.  mile. 

06 

4. 

Hauling  grain, 

a 

bush     " 

03 

S. 

Hire    of    two-horse   team,  wagon  and 

driver,  rations  furnished  by  owner,  , 

u 

day, 

10  00 

6. 

Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 

government,     .... 

a 

u 

5  00 

7. 

Hiri   of  four-horse  team,  wagon    and 

driver,  rations  furnished  by  owner,  . 

C( 

u 

13  00 

8. 

Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 

government,     .... 

u 

u 

6  £30 

9. 

Hire   of   six-hor?e    team,    wagon    and 

driver,  rations  furnished  by  owner,    . 

a 

({ 

IG  00 

10. 

Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 

government,     . 

I'. 

(( 

8  00 

11. 

Hire  of   laborer,  rations  furnished  by 

owner,               .... 

4( 

u 

2  00 

12. 

Hire  of  same,  rations  furnished  by  the 

government,     .... 

U 

(( 

1  25 

13. 

Hire   of    same,    rations    furnished    by 

owner,               .             .             .             . 

(( 

montli, 

40  00 

14. 

Hire  of  same,  rations  famished  by  the 

government,     .              .              .              . 

tc 

.( 

20  00 

Py  order. 


E.   W.    IIUBARD, 

Robert  Gibbonet, 
Commissioners  for  Va. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General, 


165 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  )  Adj't  and  Lnsp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  130.  S  JlicJimond,  Oct.  2,  18G3. 

I.  The  evils  resulting  from  the  prolonged  absence  of  soldiers 
who  have  obtained  furloughs  on  .account  of  sickness,  being  great- 
ly on  the  increase,  the  attention  of  oflicers  of  the  army  is  di- 
rected to  the  7th  paragraph  of  General  Orders,  No.  69,  of  18G3, 
from  this  oflice,  and  strict  compliance  therewith  is  enjoined. 

II.  Commanders  of  companies  who,  agreeably  to  the  require- 
ments of  the  aforesaid  orders.  No.  GO,  receive  from  examining 
boards  notices  of  furloughs  granted  by  them,  are  required  to 
make  out  and  forward  monthly  to  the  superintendents  of  tho 
Bureaus  of  Conscription  (Col.  J.  S.  Preston,  at  Richmond,  Va., 
or  Brig.  Gen.  G.  J.  Pillow,  at  Marietta,  Ga.,  as  the  case  may  re- 
quire,) lists  of  all  men  so  furlougiied,  and  who  do  not  promptly 
return  to  their  companies  at  the  expiration  of  the  time  granted 
them  ;  and  it  will  bo  the  duty  of  the  superintendent  receiving 
such  lists,  to  direct  the  proper  enrolling  officers  to  arrest  and  re- 
turn to  their  companies,  without  delay,  all  persons  %vho  are  thus 
reported,  and  found  absent  without  proper  authority. 

III.  Payment  upon  affidavit  to  soldiers  sick  or  wounded  in 
hospitals,  who  are  unprovided  with  descriptive  lists,  will  hereaf- 
ter be  limited  to  four  months  pay. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,^  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l'^^fice, 

No.  131.  ]  Richmond,  Ya.,  Oct.  3,  18G3. 

i)ifficulties  in  procuring  the  medals  and  badges  of  distinction, 
having  delayed  their  presentation  by  tho  President,  as  author- 
ised by  the  act  of  Congress,  approved  Oct.  13,  18132,  to  the  oflfi- 
€ers,  non-commiissioned  officers  and  privates  of  the  armies  of 
the  Confederate  States,  conspicuou-s  for  courage  and  good  con- 
duct on  the  field  of  battle — 

To  avoid  postponing  the  grateful  recognition  of  their  valor 
until  it  can  be  made  in  the  enduring  form  provided  by  that  act — • 
It  is  ordered, 

I.  That  the  names  of  all  those  who  have  been  or  may  hereaf- 
ter be  reported  as  worthy  of  this  distinction,  be  inscribed  on  a 

Roll  of  Honor. 
To  be  preserved  in  the  oflice  of  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector  Gen- 


eral  for  reference,  in  all  future  time,  for  those  who  have  deserved 
well  of  their  country,  as  having  best  displayed  their  courage  and 
devotion  on  the  field  of  battle. 

II.  That  the  Roll  of  Honor,  80  far  as  now  made  up,  be  ap- 
pended to  this  Order,  and  read  at  the  head  of  every  regiment  in 
the  service  of  the  Confederate  States,  at  the  first  dress  parade 
after  its  receipt,  and  be  published  in  at  least  one  newspaper  in 
each  State. 

III.  The  attention  of  the  officers  in  charge  is  directed  to  Gene- 
ral Orders,  No.  93,  section  No,  27,  of  t!ie  series  of  18G2,  Adju- 
tant and  Inspector  General's  Office,  for  the  mode  of  selecting  the 
non-commissioned  officers  and  privates  entitl-ed  to  this  distinc- 
tion, and  its  executioia  is  enjoined. 

Battle  of  Murfreesboro'. 

Alabama, 

22d  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Sergeant  W.  D.  Sumner, 
Private  VVm.  Sellers, 
Corporal  J.  L.  Husbands, 
Sergeant  B.  T.  Nelson, 

"         P.  A.  Minton, 
Corporal  N.  B.  Walker, 
Private  J.  R.  Black, 
Corporal  VV.  R.  Larry, 
Private  J.  J.  McVey, 

"      J.  N.  Eilands, 

24th  Regiment  of  Infantry: 

^^ptain  W,  D.  Smith,* 
W^  "         W.  p.  Fov/ler, 

"        J  no.  B.  Hazard, 

"       W.  J.  OBrien, 
Lieutenant  J.  A.  Hall, 

"  A.  B.  Nelson, 

"  R.  T.  P.  Parham, 

"  A.  Young, 

Sergeant  Major  Wm.  Mink. 
1st  Sergeant  J.  M.  J.  Tally, 
Sergeant  John  Ives, 
Private  Martin  Duggan, 

"         Melbourn  De loach, 
Sergeant  Saml.  S.  Wylie, 
Private  Josepli  Hall, 

"        Saml.  M.  Roberts* 

"       A.  W.  Scott, 

"       James  R.  Green, 


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24th  Kegiment  of  Infantry — Continued  : 

"       N.  Lankford  * 
"       A.  Posey, 

25th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Sergeant  Isaac  N,  Rhoades, 
Private  Warren  A.  Jackson, 

"       Samuel  Ellison, 

"  .     Jarrres  A.  Mote, 
Sergeant  J.  F.  Colcer,* 

Patrick  H.  Smith, 
Private  Marion  F.  Hazlewood, 

"  Charles  W.  Ropers,* 

"  J.  B.  Peacock,* 

26th  Regiment  of  Infantry  r 

Private  B.  A.  Thompson, 
Sergeant  J.  E.  Gilbert, 
Private  L.  P.  Roberts, 

"       Reedy  Ward, 
Sergeant  F.  E.  Mitchel?, 
Private  J.  T.  McClain, 
J.  H.  Ootrel, 

"       John  A.  Uselton, 
Companies  F  and  K  made  no  selection. 

28th  Regiment  of  Infantry: 

Private  Topley  Mnrphey,  "  B- 

Sergeant  Elias  Wood,  "  G- 

W.B.Curry,  .«  K. 

"          William  E.  Short,  "  L. 

The  other  companies  made  no  selection. 

32d  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Private  James  Clements  * 
Corporal  Vincent  II.  Joiner, 
Private  Edmund  Davis, 
C\:)rporal  John  C,  Oliver,* 
Private  Reuben  Dumas, 

do      Nathaniel  Wheelers,* 
Corporal  Jamos  H.  Dore, 
Private  Alfred  C.  Hulto, 
Sergeant  George  W.  Vansandt, 
(forporal  Elijah  P.  Gable,* 

34th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Corporal  S.  J.  Niimney, 
Private  J.  R.  Brovv^ing, 
do       C.  P.  Greer, 


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4th  Regiment  of  Infantry- — Continued  ; 

Private  James  Sliehorn,  i 

do       S.  W.  Reynolds, 
do       J.  G.  Wlialey, 
do       T.  N.  Cloud, 
do       B.  R.  Covington, 
do       J.  G.  IVIetts, 

39th  Regiment  of  Infantry: 

Adjutant  J.  M.  Macon. 
2d  Lieut.  E.  Q.  Thornton, 

do         E.  O.  Petty, 
Sergeant  C.  K.  Hall, 

do         W.  :.  White, 

do         E.  Priest, 
Private  W.  C.  Menifee, 
Sergeant  A.  J.  Talbot, 
Private  Samuel  M.  Martin, 

do       John  Dausby, 

do       Evander  Burdettj 

do       Frank  Jones, 

do  Wm.  M.  Meadows, 
Sergeants  John  H.  Poyner  and  T.  F.  Espy. 
Company  G  was  unalDle  to  decide  between  these 

two  sergeants. 
Sergeant  Abnef  Flowers, 

do         James  S.  Wilson, 
Company  H  made  no  selection.  » 

ilxh.  Battalion — Sharp  Shooters  : 

Private  John  A.  Rutherford,*  '  do 

do       Walter  S.  White,  do 

Waters'  Battery  : 

Private  John  Hutcherson. 

Ketchum's  Battery  : 

Captain  James  Garrity. 
1st  Lieutenant  Philip  Bond* 
do  M.  A.  Hassell. 

Arkansas. 

1st  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Lieutenant  Colonel  D.  McGregor.* 
Adjutant  S.  M.  Greenwood. 
Captain  O.  F.  Parrish, 
Lieutenant  J.  E.  Letson, 
Captain  W.  H.  Scales, 
Corporal  G,  M.  McKenzie,* 


Compan 

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do 

F. 

do 

G. 

do 

H, 

do 

I. 

do 

K. 

do 

K, 

do 

B. 

do 

H. 

do 

H. 

do 

K, 

do 

A, 

do 

A. 

do 

B. 

do 

C. 

do 

D, 

do 

E, 

do 

F. 

do 
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G 

do 

I 

do 

K, 

do 

D, 

do 

D. 

do 

C 

do 

A, 

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1st  Regiment  of  Infantry — Continw.ed 

Private  J.  S.  T.  Hemphill, 

do  G.  W.  Sallee,* 

do  CI.  Bagy, 

do  W.  W.  Chancy, 

do  H.  J.  Bullion, 

do  A.  P.  Green,* 

do  J.  Benson,  • 

do  J.  H.  Curd,  * 

do  O.  C.  Choat,  * 

2d  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Corporal  James  W.  Pyles, 
Private  Tilman  Peavy,* 
do       J.  H.  Eagle,* 
do       E.  A.  Ballew, 
do       W.  A.  Thompson,'*'' 
do       Wm.  Till,* 
Sergeant  J.  E.  Shepard, 
Private  M.  M.  McGer, 
Sergeant  H.  M.  Gravis, 
do       F.  E.  Gett, 

4th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Sergeant  S  A.  Smith, 
Private  James  M.  Pate,* 
d®       Dan'l  Hudson-, 
do       Xhomas  Caldwell, 
Sergeant  J.  F.  Garrett,* 
Private  J.  M.  Vinson,* 
Sergeant  S.  T.  Ward,* 
Private  Simpson  Jackson, 
do       T.  P.  Williams, 

1st  Regiment  Mounted  Rifles  : 

Private  Pat.  Collawan, 
do       W.  T.  Blakemore, 
do       James  Pearsons, 
Corporal  C.  D.  Jenkins, 
Private  T.  J.  Underwood, 

do       W.  W.  Coe, 
Ist  Sergeant  W.  S.  Colbern, 
Corporal  Thomas  Thompson, 

do       J.  L.  Casteen, 
Private  G.  B.  Honse,* 

25th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Private  J.  Alphin, 
(Corporal  J.  R.  Fergurson, 
Private  W.  G.  Evans, 

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Private  M.  N.  Jones, 

do       S.  H.  McBride, 

do       John  A.  Wright, 

do       J.  S.  Gardner, 

do       J.  W.  McNabb, 
Corporal  A.  M.  Ragsdel, 

do       H.  D.  Holdawayf 

4th  Battallion  of  Infantry  : 

Private  James  Vines,* 
Corporal  L.  Higgle,* 
.  Privata,  George  Ayior, 
do       C.  G.  Warien. 

Humphries  Artillery  Company  : 
Private  John  Campbell. 

Georgia^ 

5th  Regiment  of  Infantry : 

Private  Newton  Rice^* 
Corporal  M.  J.  Mc-NaaiarRj* 
Private  Thos   J.  Biantley,'^ 
Sergeant  Samuel  P.  Kiddoo,* 
Corporal  B.  D.  Bedell, 
Private  George  A.  Horseley,* 
Corapanied  D  and  G  declined  to  select. 

Sd  Battalion  of  Infantry  : 

Private  A.  S.  Kinney,* 

do  W*  D.  Clark,' 

do  Mathew  Hall, 

do  John  Capps, 

do  Michael  Kinney, 

do  Tlionias  Nolan, 

do  G.  W.  Sanders, 

9th  Battalion  of  Infantry  : 

Private  Obie  McCreery, 

do       W.  J.  Wood, 

do  N.  W.  Rice, 
Corporal  Wm.  M.  Gaines, 
Private  C.  M,  R.  Palmer, 

Kentucky, 

2d  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Color  Corporal  W.  H.  Robinson,     ♦ 
Private  R  H.  Gravee, 
do       T^foir^c  Clark:, 


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2d  Regiment,  of  Infantry— Continued. 
Sergeant  F.  M    Cliambera, 

do       W.  0.  Ct.'ppidg*?, 

do        D    E    Turney, 
Corpo'-al  E.  H.  Wrijiiit, 
Sergeant  J<,lin  H.  Crane, 

ilo        Jas,  A.  Pearce, 

4ih  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Corporal  G.  W.  Rogers, 
Sergeant  E.  L.  Johnson, 
Private  John  McGuire, 
Color  Corporal  R.  H.  Lindsey, 
Serjeant  J.  S.  VVhittington, 
Private  Joseph  Nickols, 
do       H.  D    Wallace, 
Ser^-eant  A    M.  Hathaway, 
CoMipaKies  H  and  I  declined  selecting, 

€th  Regiment  of  Infantry; 

lnt  Serfjeant  J.  B.  Lewis, 
Corporal  E.  S.  Jone?, 
Private  Thotna3  Payne, 

do  James  T.  Prather, 
2d  SerKeatil  Wm.  Harned, 
Private  J.  O.  Cushenbnr^, 
Companies  A  and  B  declined  selecting. 

'9th  Regiment  of  Infantry: 
Captain  Jos.  Deslin, 

do       James  T.  Morehead, 
Private  J.  G.  V/akefieUl, 

do       Jaco!)  Blackshear, 

do       J.  L.  Ctdlins, 

do        Nathan  Board, 
Serjieant  Wm.  K.  Kenman, 

(io        Drake  ford  Gray, 
Private  H.  B  Roberts, 
Company  D  declined  to  select, 

Louisiana. 

12th  Regiment  of  Infantry: 

Color  Sergeant  Roger  Tanure* 
Ser'^^eant  Major  John  Farrel, 
Private  Dan.   Dunn, 

do        George  K.  Riggins, 

do       Lewis  Brown, 
Corporal  F.  Druvot, 
Private  E-  SI.  Harris, 

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1 3th  Regiment  of  Infantry — Continued 

Private  James  Kinsley, 

do       M.  Brennigan, 
Sergeant  Pat.  Johnston, 
Private  Frarujis  Mackin, 

20th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Private  Frank  Monahaia, 
Corporal  Charles  Sneider, 

do  John  Bellejean, 
Private  Walter  Haynes, 
1st  Sergeant  P.  Mooney, 
Private  G.  Heisser, 

do       Michael  Sullivari 

do       Michael  Carey, 

do       John  Gorman, 
Ist  Sergeant  G.  G.  Smith, 

Austin's  Battalion  of  Sharpshooters : 

Private  J.  W.  Stovall,* 
do       Andrew  Devilbiss. 

5th  Company  Washington  Artillery  : 
Private  John  W.  Anthony. 

Mississippi, 

£th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Sergeant  Wm.  Dobbs, 
Private  Jesse  Glass, 
Oorporal  J.  J.  Smith, 
Private  G.  T.  Jayroe, 
Sergeant  J.  H.  Richardson, 

do       W.  A.  Snow, 
Private  S.  F.  Fondren, 
Sergeant  D.  S,  McCollum, 
Private  W.  R.  Flannigan, 

do      H.  H.  McxMichael, 

lih  Regiment  of  Infantry : 

Private  John  Higginbotham,* 

do       H.  H.  Price, 

do       Richard  Chaddick, 

do       Jeptha  Creel, 
Sergeant  George  Stewart, 
Private  B.  Diummond, 

do       M.  B.  Stringer, 

do       A.  Z.  Coker, 

do       P.  W.  Rogers, 
Sergeant  A.  E.  Ford, 


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8th  Kegiment  of  Infantry  : 

Private  W.  T.  Robinson, 

do       J.  H.  Bond, 

do  W.  J.  Pitman, 
Corporal  G.  B.  Risher, 
Private  S.  T.  Massey, 

do       D.  F.  Hilburn, 
Corporal  A.  W.  Atwood, 
Private  J.  C.  Lucy, 

do       Joel  Foster, 

do       W,  W.  Watson, 

$)tli  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Private  T.  E.  Bowden,* 

do       Thomas  Gill, 
Color  Sergeant  L.  E.  McCrosky, 
Sergeant  George  F.  Duffy, 
Private  John  McAfee,* 
Corporal  E    W.  Dowty, 
Private  W.  T.  Hollis, 

do       B.  C.  Lipscomb,* 
Sergeant  D.  R.  i^iles, 
Private  W.  H.  Wheeler, 

■ilst  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Sergeant  John  A.  Moore, 
Private  A.  W.  Bell, 

do       A.  F.  Anderson, 

do       A  Sanders, 

do       Samuel  N  Richey, 

do       G  D  Nelson, 

do       P  Ledbetter, 

do       F  Constantine, 
Corporal  W  M  Baker, 
Companies  B  and  C  declined  making  selections. 

9ih  Battalion  of  Sharp  Shooters: 
4th  Sergeant  M  Murphy, 
1st  Sergeant  Joseph  O'Brien, 
Sergeant  Murphy  ws.s  selected  by  Major  Richards, 

commanding  battalioo. 
Companies  B  and  C  declined  making  selections, 

Sletnford's  Light  Battery  : 

Private  R'chard  H  Elliott. 

A^orlh  Carolina; 
29th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Corporal  Abner  B  Freeman,  do 

Pfivate  Thomas  Elk  in,  do 


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2^h  Regiment  of  Infantry—Continued: 

Color  Bearer  James  R  Lanning,  Company  C 

-  Ist  Sergeant  Ervin  F  Roberts, 
Corporal  Willburn  S  Smitii, 
Private  Devania  Alilltaps,* 

do       Abraham  Hedrick, 

do       James  A  Gillespie, 

do       Thomas  Willis, 

do       Robert  King, 

39tb  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Colonel  David  Coleinan„ 
Lieutenant  Colonel  Hugh  H  DavidsosSc 
Acting  Adjutant  Isaac  S.  Hyaras. 
1st  Lieutenant  Abiam  Booker, 

do  Wm  T  Anderson, 

Sergeant  John  C  Rogers, 
Private  Wm  T  West, 

do       James  W  Cobb, 

do       James  B  A  Staten, 

do       JMoses  Fulbriglit, 
Sergeant  John  W  Wiggins, 

do       John  E  More, 
Companies  G  und  H  made  no  selection- — Company 

K  not  in  action. 

South  Carolina^ 
10th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

1st  Lieutenant  C  C  Wliite,  do  A 

Private  A  J  McCants,  do  A 

do       J  S  Beaiy,  do  B 

do       W  D  Hewitt,  do  C 

do       G  S  Flow^ers,  do  D 

Sergeant  C  ,W  Cockfield,''  do  E 

Private  G  W  Curry,  do  F 

do       J  Cannon,  do  G 

dp       N  Gray,  do  H 

do       W  H  Poston,  do  I 

do       J  W  H  Bunch,*  do  K 

do       J  A  Boatwright,           '  do  L 

Sergeant  S.  B.  Rhuark,  do  M 

ISth  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Colonel  A  J  Lythgoe- 
Major  John  A  Crovi'der. 
Private  Benjamin  W  Boothe, 

do       Samuel  S  Home, 
Sergeant  W  H  Burkhultex^ 
'  Private  W  A  Black. 


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19th  Regiment  of  Infantry — Continuecl 

Private  S  D  McCoy, 

do       Samuel  Bloodsworth, 

Sergeant  Seth  A  Jones,    . 

Private  James  McCiain, 
do       James  Jones, 

Sergeant  Martin  Yance, 

Tennessee, 

2a  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Color  Sergeant  John  C  Ferris. 

4th  Regiment  of  Infantry: 

Sergeant  J.  B.  Wendall, 
Corporal  M  R  Brown, 
Private  R  L  Matthews, 

do       G  M  Whitson, 
Sergeant  J  F  Seay, 
Private  R  W  Mullins, 

5th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Sergeant  J  P  Hardcastle, 
2d  Lieutenant  Z  B  Hamrick, 
Color  Sergeant  W  Davis, 
1st  Lieutenant  W  C  Grissom, 
Captain  R  B  Roberts, 
2d  Lieutenant  W  B  Masey, 
1st  Lieutenant  J  B  Blair, 
Sergeant  J  Swan, 
2d  Lieutenant  S  R  Richards, 
do  W  H  Ballard, 

Corporal  W  F  Diggs, 
2d  Sergeant  J  A  Aguilar, 
Sergeant  L  D  Holland, 
Private  W  T  Ballard, 
Corporal  W  A  Thompson, 
Private  J  J  Hagler, 

do       PC  Bancum, 

do        VV  C  Malin,^- 

do       G  W  Costen,* 
Corporal  J  B  Johnson, 

Sih  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Private  D  T  Purkins,^ 
do       RE  Colston,* 

Sergeant  J  M  Jones, 
do         W  J  Arnis^trong,* 
do         Willie  Simmons,* 

1st  Sergeant  E  B  Little,* 

Private  It  H  Gaines,* 


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Sth  Regiment  of  Infantry — Continued  : 

Private  T  G  Hall,  Company  H 

Sergeant  J  T  Luna,  do            I 

iJergeant  Major  W  H  Holmon,*  do          K 

17th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Col  A  S  Marks. 

Lieutenant  Colonel  W  W  Floyd. 

Adjutant  James  Fitzpatrick. 

Captain  F.  B.  Terry, 

1st  Lieutenant  G.  W.  Corn, 

do  H.  M.  Kimsey, 

2d  Lieutenant  M.  W.  Black, 
Corporal  John  N.  Lowery,*  ^ 
Sergeant  P.  L.  Shaffner, 

do         W.  T.  Jones, 

do         Robert  Rollins, 
-  Private  J.  D.  Martin, 

do       John  L.  Conley, 

do       J.  H.  Gober, 

do       M.  T.  Liggett,* 

do       T.  C.  Mitchell, 
Company  I  declined  making  a  selection. 

19th  Regiment  of  Infantry  ; 

1st  Sergeant  Joseph  Thompson,  do  L 

do  *  Ames  C.  Smith,  do  B. 

Sergeant  Geo.  N.  Richardson,  do  K. 

The  other  companies  declined  making  se- 
lections. 

'23d  Regiment  of  Infantry : 

Lieutenant  Colonel  R.  H.  Keeble. 
Captain  W.  H.  Hunter, 

do        N.  R.  Allen, 
Private  W.  G.  Haynie, 

do       W.  J.  Pennington, 
let  Sergeant  J.  N.  Holt, 
Private  H.  C.  Haynes,* 

do       S.  M.  Foster, 

do       Jaspei  M.  Harris,* 
1st  Sergeant  Wm.  K.  Kelly, 
Corpgral  G.  W.  Jernyan, 

24th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Private  R.  H.  Jones, 

do        Willis  A.  Jones, 

do       J.  M,  D.  Sullivan, 
Sergeant  W  H.  H.  Laftin, 


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24th  Regiment  of  Infantry — Continued  : 
Private  Wm.  Jordon, 
Color  Bearer  Cuthbert  Ferrill, 
Sergeant  G.  W   Anderson, 
Private  Allen  W.  Williams, 
do       R.  A.  Dean, 
do       Andrew  J.  Powers, 

25th  Regiment  of  Infantry: 

This  regiment   declined  making  any  se- 
lections. 

26th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Private  James  Death  era  go,* 
do       John  H.  Edmunds, 
do       Wm.  T.  Williams,* 
do       Wesley  Collins, 
do       William  Rice, 
do        William  Wright, 
do       A.  M.  Brunson, 
do       Washington  Fuller, 
do       John  Alfred, 

28th  Regiment  of  Infantry: 

Captain  Franklin  Fowler, 

1st  Lieutenant  James  M.  Lowe, 

Private  Elijah  W.  Greer, 

do       Thomas  W.  Patton, 

do       Lafatte  Chilton, 

do       James  A.  Rash, 
Color  Bearer  Houston  B.  Graves, 
Corporal  John  F.  Moore, 
Private  Pinkney  Craighead, 
Sergeant  Claiborne  D.  Griffith, 
1st  Sergeant  J.  R.  Pirtle, 

33d  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Corporal  J.  W.  Mosier, 
PrivKte  T.  E.  Mercer, 
Sergeant  J.  C.  Stublefield, 
Private  W.  J.  McDaniel, 

do       E.  M.  Arnohl, 
Sergeant  George  Parhorn,* 
Private  W.  R.  Gauntlett, 

do  J.  L.  Mizell,* 
Sergeant  J.  E.  Hays,* 
Private  J.  D.  Hill, 

37th  Regiment  of  Infantry: 

Major  J.  T.  McReynolds. 


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44th  Regiment  of  Infantry: 

Colonel  John  S.  Fulton. 
Lieutenant  Colonel  J.  L.  McEwin. 
Major  H.  C.  Ewin. 
Captain  Samuel  Jackson, 
Private  James  D.  Stone, 

do       J.  G.  Heflin  * 
Corporal  John  W.  Gill,* 

do         J.  D.  Crenshaw, 

do         Isaac  Berry, 
Private  J.  M.  Sellers, 

45th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Private  A.  W.  Loftin, 
do       J.  H.  Henderson, 
do       J.  E.  Watkins,* 

Corporal  P.  C.  F.  Miller, 

Private  James  Flovi^ers,* 

Isi  Sergeant  L.  P,  Cawthorn,* 

Private  A.  T.  Lanvin,* 

Corporal  B.  A.  Baird, 
:  Sergeant  Hugh  Hope, 

Private  John  W.  Williams, 

Darden"s  Battery — This  company  declined  to  select. 
Stephen  Artil'ery  : 

Private  Jamts  L.  Gibbs.'* 

Jefferson  Artillery  : 

Captain  P.  Darden. 

Major  R.  B.  Snowden,  Assistant  Adjutant 
General. 

Captain  Douglas'  Battery: 

Corporal  W.  L.  Waits. 

Texas, 
9th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Lieutenant  Colonel  M.  A.  Dillard. 
Private  F.  M.  Sellman, 

do       John  Bradshavv, 

do        T.  J.  Cox, 
Sergeant  J.  C.  Hamilton,  • 

Private  J.  M.  Byrd, 

do       D.  F.  Moore, 

do       M.  H.  Dixon, 
Sergeant  G.  W.  Bedford, 
Companies  B  and  I  declined  making  selec- 
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lOth  Regiment  of  Cavalry  (dismounted)  : 

Private  Alexander  Cook, 

do       F.  M.  Rodgers, 
Sergeant  J^  T.  McGee, 

do         A.  Sims, 
Pri\iite  James  Terry, 

do       W-  W.  Con  ley, 

do       Stokely  Hutchins, 

do       J.  O.  Manning, 

do       Joel  Reynolds, . 

do       S.  L.  Birdwell, 

14th  Regiment  of  Cavalry  : 

Private  W,  R.  Strapp, 

do       Jordon  VVhelcher, 

do       Thomas  A.  Laitemer, 

do       Wm.  D.  Melton,* 
Corporal  John  VVyche, 
Private  Wm  Spencer, 

do       Geo  W  Woodall, 

do       Wm  Hull, 

do       Richard  Stiles, 

do       J  V  Keil, 

32d  Regiment  of  Cavalry,  (formerly  16th): 

Corporal  James  Rogers,* 
Private  James  W  Clark,* 
1st  Sergeant  S  L  Easly, 
Private  E  Watson, 

The  other  companies  declined  making  selec- 
tions. 

9th  Confederate  Regiment: 

Col  J  A  Smith,  Commanding. 

Captain  Jos  H  Brow. 

1st  Sergeant  Wm  Powers,  do  A 

do  Wm  Price.  do  B 

Private  Hugh  McHugh,  do  C 

1st  Sergeant  Walter  Laracy,  do  D 

Private  John  Hogan,  do  E 

do       Ciirran  Kenny,  *  do  F 

do       Luther  Hessey,  do  G 

Sergeant  A  P  Burns,  do  H 

Battle  of  Chancellorstit.le. 

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Private  C  D  Rouse, 

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Companies  A,  B,  D,  F  and  L  declined  voting. 

5th  Regiment  of  Infantry: 

Captain  W  T  Renfro, 
Private  W  P  Stokes, 
do       John  Summers, 
do       F  M  Burnett, 
Sergeant  John  H  Cowan, 
Private  Louis  H  Thornton, 
Corporal  Jno  0  Donohoe, 
•Private  N  S  Franklin, 
do       R  L  Franklin, 
do        H  J  Robertson, 
Corporal  H  F  Martin, 
6th  Regiment  of  Infantry: 

Private  Mathew  Benton, 
Sergeant  J  C  Gamble, 
Private  W  H  Digby, 
do       H  H  Moore, 
Sergeant  E  O  Baker, 
Corporal  G  P  Jones, 
Private  H  L  Jones, 
Sergeant  D  Madigan, 
Private  James  W  Evans, 

do       HI  Price, 
Sergeant  H  W  Hale, 
Private  D  W  Moorer, 
12lh  Regiment  of  Infantry: 
Captain  H  W  Cox,* 
Private  Louis  Doiidure, 

do       R  W  May, 
Sergeant  Wm  Lawess, 
Private  J  E  Bailey, 
do       C  H  Hunter, 
do       P  W  Chappell, 
do       R  B  Mitchell, 
do       W  S  Brown, 
do       H  N  Wootan, 
do        Thos  Eady, 
26th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

1st  Lieutenant  E  S  Stackey, 

Private  L  Walter*,  » 

do       Jos  H  Bounds, 
Sergeant  J  H  Lockwell, 
Private  J  C  Pennington, 
do       Jos  Munsel, 
dp.      J^mes  H  Dowdle, 


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do       S  M  Beavers, 
do       WW  Forrister, 
do       R  J  Orr, 
1st  Sergeant  N  M  Howard, 
Private  Jas  N  Bujlard, 

do       Archibald  McDonald, 
1st  Sergeant  B  L  Stevens, 
Private  W  H  Burgamy, 

35th  Regiment  of  Infantry: 

Corporal  Jackson  Baggett, 
Private  A  S  W  Bass, 
2nd  Serjjeant  J  A  Cochran, 
Private  Rolley  Willingham, 

do       DP  White, 

do       R  D  B  Holt, 

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Corporal  Jesse  Parsons,  Company  G  , 

Private  D  H  Spraddle, 
Sergeant  D  Butler, 
Private  B  F  Smith, 

Georgia. 

4th  Regiment  of  Infantry: 

Private  W  Sparks,* 
Sergeant  Hill  M  Traylor,* 
Color  Corporal  Jno  T  Moore,* 
The  other  companies  declined  making  selec- 
tions. 

14th  Regiment  of  Infantry: 

Lieutenant  Colonel  J  M  Fielder.* 
Captain  T  T  Mounger.* 

do        R  P  Harman.* 
1st  Lieutenant  H  A  Solomon.* 
Private  Daniel  Kennington,* 
Corporal  William  Tomlinson, 

do         Joseph  G  Dupree,  * 

2d  Sergeant  Thomas  D  Smith, 
Private  James  F  D  Thaxton,* 

do       James  M  Brock, 
The  other  companies  declined  making  selections. 

12th  Regiment  of  Infantry: 

1st  Lieutenant  Thos  W  Harris, 
2d  Lieutenant  J  A  Walker, 


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36th  Regiment  of  Infantry — Continued. 

Private  Absalom  Martin,                          *                Company  H 

do       Lewis  Milligan,  .                            do  I 

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44th  Regiment  of  Infantry  ; 

Private  James  Fambrough,*  do  C 

do       James  A  xMcNatt,*  do  F 

The  other  companies  declined  making  selections, 

45th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Captain  Wm  H  Shaw.* 
Private  Jno  D  Pate* 

do       Jno  H  King, 

do       James  M  Lawrence, 

do       James  P  Green, 

do       Jno  S  Bonner, 

do       H  W  Dent, 

do       WW  Wilson, 

do       M  H  Fitzpatrick, 
Company  B  declined  making  a  gelection. 

49th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Sergeant  H  A  Hall, 
Private  Lewis  White, 
Sergeant  M  Watkins, 

do         W  T  Moore,->^ 
Corporal  James  HoUingsworth,* 

do         L  D  Taylor, 

do  J  N  Jordon. 

Private  Joseph  Bell, 

do       F  B  Pool, 

do       James  Taylor,* 

21st  Regiment  ol  Infantry — Declined  making  selections. 

North  Carolina. 
2d  Regiment : 

Sergeant  John  E  Banner, 
Private  W  H  Flowers, 
Sergeant  T  E  Ellis, 
Corporal  S  Felton, 
Sergeant  J  T  Booth, 
Corporal  J  E  May, 
Private  Thomas  Williford, 

do        Simeon  Graddy, 

do       Aaron  A  Pitt, 
Corporal  Charles  Catler, 

4tJ2  Eeg^mentof  Infantry-:' 

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4th  Regimeni  of  Infantry— Continued. 

Private  Jacob  W  Wilhelm,* 
Sergeant  Jos  W  Leggett,* 
Private  G  W  Shivis,* 

do       William  H  Barrow,* 

do       W  R  Josey,* 
The  other  companies  declined  making  selections. 

5th  Regiment  of  Infantry: 

Private  William  Henry  Medlin, 

do        Richard  H  Briggs,  • 

do       Newitt  D  BridgeSj 

do       J  M  Guilford, 
Corporal  Monroe  Cruise, 

do         Patrick  H  Robbins, 
Private  Thomas  Felton, 
Color  Corporal  Francis  Bradshaw, 

7th  Regiment  of  Infantry: 

2d  Lieutenant  A  M  Walker, 
Corporal  Win  H  Milstead, 
Sergeant  AVm  G  Savryers, 
Corporal  Phillips  Strickland, 
Sergeant  Thom.as  Brinkle, 
Private  E  H  Eure, 

do       Edward  Williams, 
Corporal  J  W  Smitb, 
Sergeant  R  M  Caldwell, 
Private  T  L  Purdie, 
Sergeant  J  S  McCurdy, 

12th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 
Private  D  B  Hoover,  ' 
Corporal  Samuel  Alston  Ward, 
Private  T  A  Stone, 
Sergeant  L  M  Willis,* 
Private  Jerry  Draper, 

do       J  E  Hux, 
A  L  Barne?, 
J  no  W  Arrington, 
Juo  R  Johnson,* 

14th  Regiment  of  Infantry : 

Private  Henry  B  Sanders, 
Sergeant  J  F  Goforth, 

do         Urias  Pool,* 

do         J  M  Whitmire, 

do         J  R  Smith,* 
Corporal  C  M  Smith, 

Sergeant  L  N  Keith, 

Companies  A,  B  and  II  declined  making  selections 


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16th  Rffgiment  of  Infantry: 

1st  Lieutenant  C  L  Robinson,* 
do  A  M  Roberts,* 

Private  F  Riley, 
Corporal  W  H  Wiggins, 
Private  K  C  Blanton, 

do  Lawrence  Cook, 
Corporal  A  M  Madows, 
Private  J  W  Williford,* 

do       B  P  Jacobs, 
1st  Sergeant  T  L  Williams,* 
Corporal  J  J  Blackwell,* 
Color  Sergeant  John  A  Carpenter, 

20th  Regiment  af  Infantry: 

Corporal  C  A  Patterson, 
Private  i)  R  A  Ellis, 
Corporal  Richard  Faulk, 
Private  Josiah  Hudson, 

do       Newberne  Tew, 

do       Thomas  N  Morris, 
23d  Regiment  of  Infantry: 

Private  J  D  Birmingham,* 

do       A  Hedick, 
Sergeant  Brantley  Harris,* 
Private  N  C  Morrison,* 

do       Samuel  Clarke, 

do       W  A  Towell,* 

do       T  M  Tamason, 

do       J  C  Ford,* 

do       Robert  Uesler, 

do       JFKillian,* 
30th  Regiment  of  Infantry: 

Private  Jno  R  Holland,* 

do        Wm.  J.  McDowell, 
Sergeant  J  W  J  House, 
Private  William  McCauIey, 

do       EM  Bales, 
Companies  B,  D,  E,  G  and  I  made  no  decision. 

34th  Regiment  of  Infantry: 

Private  Methias  Brown, 

do       Walace  Winn, 
Sergeant  George  W  Koone, 
Private  Obadiah  Eller, 
1st  Sergeant  David  M  Taylor, 
Sergeant  Thomas  S  Shiifford,* 
1st  Sergeant  Charles  B  Todd, 
Private  Samuel  Dellingner, 


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34th  Regiment  of  Infantry—Continued," 
Sergeant  Elisha  Robbins, 
Private  Joseph  Hogan, 

37th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 
Private  W  J  Goss, 
Sergeant  J  E  Farchild, 

do         B  F  Brown, 
Private  Jno  L  Austin, 

do       J  E  Coffee, 

do       William  Kelly, 
Corporal  J  A  Rolinett, 
Sergeant  G  W  McKee, 

do         John  Tally, 
Private  M  I)  L  Parsons, 

38th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Adjutant  D  M  Mclntire. 
Lieutenant  A  J  Brown, 
Private  Jesse  Netliercnt, 

do       'J'homas  Diiikins, 

do       Benjamin  Sutton, 
1st  Sergeant  David  A  Thomson, 
Private  W  J  Hutchinson,''^ 

do       W  M  S  Huffman, 
Corporal  W  T  Matheson, 

do         DP  Woodbun, 
Private  T,  J  Ramsey, 

do       W  H  McPhauI, 

Soiith  Carolindf 
1st  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Private  W  H  Cooper, 
do       J  P  Hunter,* 
do       A  P  Abbott,* 
do       Jesse  R  Hays,* 
do       Benjamin  Barnhill,* 
do       G  W  Smith,* 
d«       Albert  P  Tournans, 
do       R  VV  Perry, 
do       James  McNab,* 
do       A  J  Simpson,  . 
13th  Regiment  of  Infantry: 

Sergeant  J  A  AlcCoIIum,^- 
Private  James  Johnson,* 

Jno  M  Pikard, 

T  C  Corley, 

Hth  Regiment  of  Infantry: 

Sergeant  J  M  Carter,*  do 


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Private  Caleb  Hare,* 

do       Olivant  P  Walker,* 
do       C  Hughes, 

Sergeant  Z  L  Nabors  * 

Private  James  White* 

Sergeant  R  J  Wade, 

do         John  E  Brownlee, 

Private  M  C  Little,* 

Orr's  Rifles : 

Sergeant  L  A  Wardlaw^ 
Private  Sam'l  P  Moore, 
do       J  Marian  Mattison, 

Virginia. 
4th  Regiment  of  Infantry: 
Captain  M  Harmon,* 
Lieutenant  M  G  W  Peterman,* 
Captain  John  H  Fulton, 
Lieutenant  James  F  Cecil, 

do  PHogan, 

do  W  B  Carder, 

Adjutant  William  Wade. 
Sergeant  Harold  J  Matthews, 

do  Charles  W  Garlick, 

Private  William  A  Chumbley, 

do        Edward  Harrison, 
Sergeant  Cliarles  L  Gordon, 
Corporal  George  V  Byrd, 

do  Peter  H  Marrow, 

Private  Ribben  D  Henderson,* 

do       Nathan  A  Lackey,* 

do       George  W  Pace> 

27th  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 
Sergeant  J  H  Holley, 
Private  J  O  Cook, 

do       W  H  Parker," 

do       E  H  Norgrove,** 

do       Hu^'h  King, 
Corporal  John  Baker, 

do         Isaac  Beeson, 

40th  Regiment  of  Infantry: 

Private  George  W  Dudley,* 
do       Robert  H  Wilson, 
do       Peter  M  Hall, 
do       Henry  Bartlett, 
do       Hiram  Purcell, 


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Ist  Sergeant  Thomas  Cockrell,* 
Private  Joseph  McCave, 
Corporal  John  T   Ford,* 

do  George  Cornwell, 

Ist  Sergeant  Jno  B  Garland,* 

55th  Regiment  of  Infantry: 

Corporal  C  R  Sheppard,* 
Sergeant  William  Smith, 
Corporal  Ro  Hall, 
Sergeant  Tlios  B  Fogg,* 
Private  Tliomas  Dodson, 

do       Jno  Haytlon,* 

do       George  T.  Newton,* 

Battle  of  Gettysburq. 

9th  Georgia  Regiment  of  Infantry  : 

Lieutenant  Colonel  John  C  Mounger, 
Private  P  B  Millican.* 
do       Tho:j  J  iMicl.)Hel, 
do        James  W.  Mann, 
Corporal  Joseph  A  Hough, 
Private  Je^se  McCuliar,* 
do       John  Mills, 
do       Cliesley  Aldeman, 
Corf  oral  Lullier  J  Co))eland,* 
Privaie  Henry  T  Daniel, 
Private  Henry  T   Daniel  was  afterwards   killed  at  Funkstown, 
Md.,  July  10th,  lb'63. 
By  order, 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General^ 

J^^Tho  asterisks  designate  those  killed  in  action. 


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GENERAL  ORDERS,  |         Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 
No.  132.  j  Richmond,  Oct.  5,  1863. 

I.  Ctidets,  having  been  required  by  General  Orders,  No.  65, 
Sept.  9,  1862,  to  report  to  this  office  those  who  have  not  com» 
plied  with  the  terms  of  that  order,  and  who  fail  to  do  so,  either 
personally  or  by  letter,  for  the  ensuing;  thirty  days,  will  bo 
dropped  from  the  rolls  of  the  army. 

II.  *' OflBcers  of  the  Quartermaster  Generate  and  Commissary 
DcpartuianU,  who  are  iu  charge  of  depots,  will  receive  from  uflti- 


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cers  collecting  tho  tax  in  kind,  and  receipt  for  all  produce  be- 
longing to  their  respective  departments  which  may  be  invoiced 
to  them,  and  provide  storehouses  for  the  same.'' 
By  order, 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General, 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  )  Adj't  4nd  Ixsp'»  Gen'l's  OpficI!, 

J^o.  133.  S  J^icJimond,  Oct.  ^,  186Z, 

I.  The  Chief  of  the  Nitre  and  Mining  Bureau  i?  directed, 
lihrough  the  officers  of  his  bureau,  to  impress  copper,  coal,  and 
such  other  minerals  as  may  be  needed  for  the  use  of  the  govern* 
ment. 

II.  The  provisions  of  paragraph  I,  General  Orders,  No.  67, 
current  series,  is  extended  to  officers  of  the  conscription  bureau. 
The  payments  authorized  will  be  made  out  of  the  funds  appro- 
priated for  the  support  of  that  bureau. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  )  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  OrrjCE, 

No.  134.  )  Richmond,  Oct.  13,  1863. 

I.  At  a  General  Court  Martial,  convened  by  virtue  of  Gene- 
ral Orders,  No.  133,  from  Head  Quarters  Army  of  Northjsrn. 
Virginia,  Dec.  7i  1863,  was  arraigned  and  tried; 

Second  Lieutenant  J.  M.  Youngblood,  Co.  B,  2d  Miss.  Batt?il- 
ion,  on  the  following  Charge  and  Specification : 

Charge — Violation  of  the  45th  Article  of  War. 

Specification— In  this,  that  the  said  Second  Lieutenant  J.  M. 
Toungblood,  Co.  B,  2d  Miss.  Battalion,  was  drunk  and  disorder- 
ly on  "dross  parade"  and  in  camp  on  or  about  the  evening  of 
November  3,  1862.  All  this  occurring  near  Culppper  Court- 
eouoe,  in  Oulpeper  county,  in  the  State  of  Virginia. 

II.  Finding  and  Sentence  of  the  Court. 

The  Court,  after  due  consideration,  find  the  accused,  Second 
Lieut.  J-  M.  Youngblood,  2d  Miss,  Battalion,  as  follows; 


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Of  the  Speeificntion,  .  .  :  .  Guilty. 

Of  the  Charge,      .....  Guilty, 

And  do  therefore  sentence  him  to  be  cashiered. 

II.  The  proceedings  in  the  foregoing  case  having  been  laid  be- 
fore the  Secretary  of  War,  for  the  decision  of  the  President 
are  by  him  approved ;  but  in  consideration  of  the  previous  so- 
briety and  good  conduct  of  Lieut.  Youngblood,  the  sentence  is 
remitted,  and  he  will  be  restored  to  duty. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adiutani  and  Jnspeetor  Genei'al, 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  ]  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  135.  )  IticJimond,  Oct  15, 1863. 

I.  Recruiting  officers  and  others  are  forbidden  to  grant  per- 
mits to  conscripts  or  deserters,  allowing  them  to  visit  their 
homes,  or  to  remain  there  for  any  purpose.  The  notice  already 
given  conscripts  is  deemed  sufficient,  and  deserters  are  not  enti- 
tled to  indulgence. 

II.  All  parties  who  have  received  exemption  papers  for  disa- 
bility other  than  those  granted  for  permanent  and  decided  disa- 
bility, must  be  re-examined,  and  the  law  which  there  is  reason 
to  believe  is  too  often  evaded,  be  in  these,  and  in  all  cases,  strictly 
enforced. 

III.  Men  employed  to  aid  enrolling  officers  must,  if  subject  to 
conscription,  be  regularly  enrolled  ;  and  unless  detailed  for  the 
special  duty  in  question  by  written  orders  of  the  War  Depart- 
ment, will  be  reported  to  the  Bureau  of  Conscription,  to  be  dis- 
posed of  as  in  other  cases. 

IV.  Officers  will  be  held  to  strict  account  for  any  violation  or 
neglect  of  these  orders. 

V.  The  provisions  of  paragraph  I,  General  Orders,  No.  67, 
current  series,  is  extended  to  officers  of  Major  A.  H.  Cole's  de- 
partment. The  payments  authorized  will  be  made  by  any  post 
quartermaster. 

yi.  Officers  and  soldiers  in  the-  general  service  cannot  be 
transferred  to  local  companies,  and  applications  therefore  will 
•aot  bo  entertained. 

By  order.  S.  COOPER, 

Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


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GENERAL  ORDERS,  )  Adj- t  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  136.  S  Richmond,  Oct.  21,  1863. 

Pavagranh  ITT,  General  Orders,  No.  100,  Adjutant  and  Inspec- 
tor General's  offit-e  last  spriei*,  is  so  amended  as  to  auth(vrize  pay- 
ment of  the  money  jvalue  of  clothing  which  may  be  due  the 
s  )ldier  at  the  end  i»t  the  year,  as  tlierein  provided,  upon  descrip- 
tive lists,  when  he  is  absent  from  his  command  hy  proper  au- 
thority at  the  time,  and  will  be  prevented  from  rejoining  it  \Aith- 
in  sixty  days  thereafter. 


By  order. 


S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General^ 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  ]  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  137.*  3  Richmond,  Oct.  22,  1863. 

The  authority  of  Commandants  of  Conscripts  to  make  details 
for  enrolling  service  of  offit-erb  and  soldiers  coming  vrithin  their 
jurisdiction,  under  the  2d  clause  of  paragraph  II  of  General  Or- 
ders, No.  82,  and  paragraph  V  of  General  Orders,  No.  96,  of 
1862,  is  hereby  extended,  so  that  they  may  employ  such  persons 
in  the  duties  of  rail  road  guards,  bridge  or  ferry  guards,  or  in 
the  protection  of  public  property,  at  the  request  of  the  officers  of 
the  staff  departments  or  of  local  military  tonmianders.  Special 
reports  will  be  made  of  all  such  details,  to  the  Bureau  of  Con- 
scription. 

They  may  also  detail,  in  like  manner,  until  the  recovery  of 
health,  any  convalescents  borne  on  the  rolls  of  general  hospitals, 
■who  may  be  reported  to  them  by  the  hospital  boards  as  unable  to 
take  the  field,  but  fit  for  light  duty  :  the  details  to  cease  at  the 
time  that  may  be  indicated  by  th^  examinations  of  the  hospital 
boards. 


By  order. 


S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  |  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  138.  J    "  Richmond,  Oct.  24,  1863. 

The  following  instructions  are  published  for  carrying  into  ef- 

*  Revoked  by  Par.  I,.  General  Orders,  No.  15,  1864. 


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feet  the  9th  section  of  the  Act  of  26th  March,  1863,  to  regulate 
impressments,  in  repect  to  labor  on  fortifications  and  other  pub- 
lic works,  in  States  in  which  provisions  have  not  been  made  on 
this  subject: 

1.  The  commanding  general  or  the  oflScer  of  engineers  ia 
charge  of  the  work,  ehall  have  power  to  decide  upon  the  pecessi- 
ty  for  making  impressments  of  slaves  for  this  purpose,  after 
making  suitable  efforts  to  secure  the  necessary  laborers  by  con- 
tract, lie  must  be  satisfied  of  the  necessity  of  the  measure  be- 
fore he  resorts  to  it. 

2.  Hi  may  authorize  the  impressment  of  male  slaves  between 
the  ages  of  seventeen  and  fifty  years,  but  before  the  first  day  of 
December  next  shall  abstain  from  impressing  slaves  from  plan" 
tations  exclusively  devoted  to  the  production  of  grain  and  provis- 
ions, without  the  consent  of  the  owner,  except  in  cases  of  urgent 
necessity. 

3.  No  impressm&nts  shall  be  made  of  the  slaves  employed  in 
the  domestic  and  family  service  exclusively,  nor  upon  farms  or 
plantations  where  there  are  not  more  than  three  slaves  of  the  age 
spfcified,  and  not  more  than  five  per  cent,  of  the  population  of 
slaves  shall  be  impressed  in  any  county  at  the  same  time,  unless 
the  necessity  is  very  great,  and  after  consultation  with  this  de- 
partment or  the  Governor  of  the  State  in  which  the  impressment 
is  to  be  n\'ide.  « 

4.  The  ordinary  period  for  impressment  shall  be  sixty  days, 
-but  if  the  owner  of  any  slave  shall  fail   to  bring  the  slaves  im- 

prci^sed  to  the  place  of  rendezvous  within  five  days  after  the  time 
appointed,  the  slaves  so  withheld  may  be  detained  for  ninety 
days,  and  for  a  longer  term  of  ten  days  for  every  day  of  default, 
unless  a  reasonable  excuse  be  given  for  the  delays  that  have  oc- 
curred, 

5.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  commanding  general  in  charge  of 
any  lines  requiring  fortification,  to  acquaint  himself  with  the  re- 
sources of  slave  labor  within  Ins  department,  and  to  consider 
with  care  the  manner  in  which  he  may  obtain  the  control  of 
whatever  is  necessary  for  the  public  service,  by  fair  and  equita- 
ble apportionment  among  the  owners  of  such  property.  He  will 
consult  with  the  Governor  of  the  State  and  other  State  authori- 
ties, as  to  the  best  mode  of  proceeding,  so  that  his  impressment 
may  cause  the  least  embarrassment  to  the  industrial  pursuits  of 
the  community. 

6.  Notices  shall  be  given  of  the  number  and  character  of  the 
slaves  required,  the  time  and  place  of  their  delivery,  the  time  for 
which  the  service  is  required,  and  of  the  arjangementa  made  for 
the  subsistence,  management  and  custody  of  the  elavee  so  re= 
quired;  and  if  the  masters  of  slaves  shall  agree  to  furnigb  sub- 
eWteao^  for  Um  dlasWi  msiX  s,  ^iteUe  o^xs<^  cr  &}^u^  ^  st^ 


m 

perintend  them,  they  shall  have  the  privilege  of"  so  Joinfj.  But 
such  overseers  shall  be  subject  to  the  control  of  the  officer  iil 
charge,  and  may  be  dismissed  for  any  misconduct  by  him. 

7.  The  sum^of  twenty  dollars  per  month  for  each  slave  deliv- 
ered in  pursuance  to  requisition,  and  fifteen  dollars  per  month 
for  each  slave  held  in  consequence  of  f  ilure  of  his  master  to 
obey  requisition  made  as  herein  before  provided,  shall  be  paid  by 
the  Confederate  States,  and  soldiers'  rations,  medicines  and  medi- 
cal attendance  furnished ;  and  the  value  of  all  such  slaves  as 
may  die  during  their  term  of  service  or  thereafter,  from  injuries 
received  or  diseases  contracted  in  such  service,  or  may  not  be  re- 
turned, shall  be  paid  by  the  Confederate  States.  Such  value 
shall  be  conclusively  established  by  a  formal  appraisement  by  a 
board  of  experts  mutually  agreed  upon  at  the  time  the  slaves  are 
received  into  the  Confederate  service.  Compensation  shall  also 
be  made  for  all  injuries  to  slaves  arising  from  the  act  of  the  pub- 
lic enemy,  or  from  any  injury  arising  from  a  want  of  due  dili- 
gence on  the  part  of  authorities  of  the  Confederate  States.  But 
the  Confederate  States  will  not  be  liable  for  any  slave  not  re- 
turned by  reason  of  fraud  or  collusion  on  the  part  of  the  owner 
or  his  agent,  or  the  overseer  selected  by  him  to  superintend 
them,  nor  if  his  death  should  be  caused  by  the  act  of  God,  or  by 
disease  existing  when-  the  slave  is  received  by  Confederate  au- 
thorities. 

8.  Subsistence  and  provisions  furnished  by  the  owner  shall  be 
commuted  for  at  the  rates  allowed  soldiers  in  service.  All  slaves 
sent  voluntarily  to  the  Confederate  authorities,  and  accepted  by 
them,  without  other  bpecial  contract,  shall  stand  on  the  same 
footing  as  those  delivered  under  requisition  ;  and  the  owners  of 
all  slaves  delivered  or  taken  under  requisition  shall  be  entitled 
to  regard  the  Confederate  States  as  contracting  with  thorn  to  com- 
ply with  the  obligations  and  conditions  herein  expressed. 

9.  In  case  there  should  be  any  disagreement  on  the  subject  of 
the  value  of  any  slave  impressed,  or  in  case  the  impressing  oflB- 
cer  shall  not  be  satisfied  of  the  accuracy  of  any  valuation  or  val- 
uations, the  appraisement  shall  be  referred  to  the  appraisers  ap- 
pointed under  the  5th  section  of  the  Act  concerning  impress- 
ments, according  to  the  provisions  of  the  Act  of  Congress  ap- 
proved 27th  April,  1863,  and  published  in  Orders,  No.  53,  cur- 
rent series. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


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GENERAL  ORDERS,  ]         Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen^l's  Office, 
No.   139.  j  Rlchmondj  Oct.  28,  1863. 

1,  The  President  having  commuted  or  remitted  the  sentences 
pronounced  by  General  ■Courts  Martial  in  the  following  cases,  his 
decision  is  published  for  the  information  and  guidance  of  all  con- 
cerned : 

1.  Lieut.  E.  M.  P.  Brown,  Company  B,  8th  Battalion  Georgia 
Volunteers.  Charged  with  failure  to  suppress  mutiny,  and 
exciting  and  joining  therein. 

Sentence — Death. 

2.  First  Sergt.  Abner  Underwood,"  Company  D,  8th  Battalion 
Ga.  Volunteers  ;  also, 

3.  Private  T.  P.  AVood  ; 

4.  Private  T.  W.  Cannon  ; 

»'>.  Private  Wra.  Garner  ;  and 

6.  Private  T.  Roberts, 

of  Company  B,  8th  Battalion  Ga.  Volunteers.     Charged  with 
exciting  and  joining  in  mutiny. 

Sentence — Death. 

7.  Private  Daniel  Ilollis,  Company  B,  8th  Battalion  Ga.  Volun- 
teers.    Charged  with  exciting  and  joining  in  mutiny. 

Sentence — Confinement  with  ball  and  chain  for  twelve  months, 
and  farfeiture  of  pay. 

The  aforesaid  parties  were  all  tried  by  General  Court  Martial, 
convened  under  General  Orders,  No.  3,  of  1863,  Department  of 
South  Carolina,  Georgia  and  Florida.  In  view  of  the  evident 
want  of  discipline  in  this  battalion,  the  President  has  remitted 
the  sentences  of  all  the  parties.  Lieut.  Brown,  Sergt.  Under- 
wood, and  Privates  Wood,  Cannon,  Garner,  Roberts  and  flollis, 
will  therefore  be  released  from  confinement  and  returned  to  duty. 

The  Department  observes  with  regret  the  absence  of  a  jusfc 
military  discipline  in  the  above  named  battalion.  Had  this  beea 
properly  observed  and  enforced,  there  is  reason  to  believe  theso 
trials  would  have  been  obviated.  The  officers  in  charge  are  re- 
sponsible for  these  evils,  and  must  correct  them.  At  the  same 
time  they  should  observe  towards  the  soldiers  in  their  command 
a  proper  degree  of  consideration  aud  kindness,  v/hich  is  generally 
a  Bure  meani  of  lecuring  obedience  and  reepeck. 


n.— 8.  Private  Siephen  Outlaw,  of  Troop  A,  5th  Ga.  Carafr/^ 
Charged  with  desertion. 

Sentence—BQSitho 

Tried  by  General  Court  Martial,  coavsaed  lander  General 
Orders,  No.  22,  of  February  6,  1863,  Department  of  South' 
Carolina,  Georgia  and  Florida.  This  is  not  properly  a  case  of 
desertion.  The  prisoner  escaped  the  guard  -n-hile  undergoing 
sentence.  He  should  have  been  returned  to  complete  his  sentence,- 
if  there  was  no  other  charp;o  against  him  than  that  for  an  escape. 

Private  Outlaw  will  be  released  froni  conSneraent  and  returned' 
to  duty. 

9.  Lieut.  Col.  A.  C  Edwards.  Charged  with  violating  the- 
52d,  83d  and  99th  Articles  of  War. 

Tried  by  Court,  convened  under  Special  Orders,  No.  TIB,  Head' 
Quarters  Department  of  South  Carolina,  Georgia  and  Florida, 
July  28,  1862. 

Sentence — Suspension  from  rank  and  command,  without  pay, 
for  eighteen  months.    Commuted  to  reprimand  in  General  Orders. 

The  sentence  in  the  case  of  Lieut.  Col.  Edwards  was  a  just 
consequence  of  an  unbecoming  disrei^ard  af  o3&cial  obligations 
on  his  part.  In  directing,  his  release  from'  arrest  and  restoration- 
to  duty,  the  Department  indulges  the  hope  that  this  exercise  of 
Executiye  clemency  may  have  its  due  eifect  in  exciting  him  to  a 
stricter  vigilance  and  a  more  exemplary  discharge  of  duty  in  the 
future. 

,10.  Lieut.  James  M.  Chesser,  47th  Ga.  Yolunteers.     Charged^ 
with  defamation  of  character,  mutiny  and  incompetency. 

Tried  by  Court,  convened  under  General  Orders,  No.  11,  of 
January  29,  1863,  from  Division  Head  Quarters,  Wilmington,  N. 
C,  issued  in  pursuance  of  General  Orders,  No.  14,  Department 
of  South  Carolina,  Georgia  and  Florida. 

iS'en^e^ice^-BiGmiseiou  from  service,  with  fcrfeitare  of  pay  and 
allowances. 

The  record  in  thif?  eaoQ  la  incomplete,  fhe  proceedings,  find- 
ing and  sentence  are  disproved ;  and  Lieut.  Chesser  will  be  re- 
leased from  ayresfe  and  returned  to  duty, 

III. — 11.  Second  Lieut.  J.  J.  Wortbam,  Waccamaw  Ligh* 
Artillery.  Charged  with  sending  a  challenge,  and  with  conduct 
to  the  prejudice  of  good  order  and  military  discipline. 

Senfenci-^Ho  be  cashiered.  Commuted  to  p^primand  id  9eiier?.l 
Orders, 


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12.  Second  Lieut.  W.  J,  Gore,  Waccamnw  Ligirt  A-rtiri-ery.„ 
Charged  with  carrying  a  challenge. 

Sentence — Te  b«  ciishiered.  -Conunuted  to  roprimand  in  Genora^l 
Orders. 

13.  Lieut.  L.  A.  Eice,  2d  Re|;iment  S.  0.  Volunteers.  Charged 
with  sending  and  accepting  a  challenge  to  fight  a  du^l. 

Sentence — tTobe  ca^shier^d.  Oanimuted  to  repriaiaDd  in -General 
Orders. 

Lieuts.  Wortham,  Gore  nnd  Ilice,  were  tried  by  a  General  Court 
Ivlartial,  convened  under  General  Orders,  No.  70,  of  May  20, 
i860,  Department  of  South  Carolina,  Georgia  and  Florida. 

The  Articles  of  War  ezprewtly  i^rohihit  the  sending  of  chal- 
'longes  to  tiii;ht;  and  all  seconds,  pronioterc  and  carriers  of  chal- 
lenges are  deemed  principals,  and  directed  to  be  punished  ai? 
•such — i,  e.  by  Using  cashiei^d. 

The  ofFeneea  of  which  these  officers  have  l»een  convicted  are 
■thus  seen  to  l>e  of  a  very  grave  character,  afid^canuot  b<^  regarded 
with  toleration.  Bueiing  is  a  military  not  l<?,si3  than  a  morai 
•olfenee,  it  is  unfortunate  if  the  error  prevails  in  the  army  that» 
punishment  will  not  be  inflicted  on  those  who  violate  the  laws  of 
the  service  re:^pecting  it ;  and  the  BepartK/:ient  avails  itsolf  ^f  this 
•occasion  to  espress  its  unqualified  reprobation  of  the  practice,, 
-and  of  the  coKdiiet  of  the  accused  is  the  foregoing  trials. 

Lieut.  Che.^ser  appears  to  hav<5  r-ested  under  an  honest  misap- 
prehension as  to  hi8  duty  to  a  brother  officer,  in  bearing  a  ehal- 
•lenge ;  and  the  records  present  ia  tho  cases  of  Lieuts.  Wortham 
■and  Rice,  certain  mitigating  circumf?tanc€s  which  to  so^ne  extent 
justify  the  recjnamendations  to  clomoncy  Kia-de  by  their  superior 
.<;lficers. 

These  considerations,  in  connection  with  the  too  generally  pre- 
vailing misappreliension  in  the  arniy,  already  adverted  to,  havo 
■ideteruuRed  the  Esecative  80  far  to  respect  tiie  ap^perJa  made  iu 
behalf  of  these  officers  as  to  direct  the  comnratation  of  their  re- 
spective sentences.  They  will  accordingly  be  released  ft'oni  arregt 
and  restored  to  duty  with  their  proper  companies. 

LL  Lieut.  Yv.C.  Prnitt,  Company  E,  20th  S.  C.  Volunteers. 

Tried  undef  Special  Ordor.-^^  No,  105,  Mar.eh  10,  1833,  Depart" 
«ient  of  South  Carolina,  Georgia  aud  ^''iorida,  for  intoxicatio«i 
•while  on  duty. 

Sentence — To  be  dismissed  tlie  service.     No  evidence  was  s^^ 
xnitted  with  the  record  in  -thie  a-^wd. 

In  consif^eration  of  tho  recommeadation  of  the  Commanding 
General,  tho  sentence  is  romltf«d  ;  and  Lieut.  Prultt  wUl  ))>3  r-e- 
leased  frow  arrest  and  returned  to  d\itv. 


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15.  Private  C.  H.  Kent,  Company  D,  18th  Virginia  Battalion, 
Charged  with  desertion,  and  conduct  to  the  prejudice  of  good 
order  and  military  discipline. 

Sentence — Six  months*  hard  lahor  with  ball  and  chain.  To 
•wear  a  placard  -with  the  word  "  forger"  legibly  printed  thereon, 
for  the  period  of  six  montha. 

Tried  by  General  Court  Martial,  under  General  Orders,  No.  7> 
of  October  11,  1862,  Head  Quarters,  Richmond,  Va. 

The  sentence  is  remitted,  and  Private  Kent  will  be  released 
from  confinement,  and  assigned  to  a  company  in  the  Army  of 
Northern  Virginia. 

16.  Private  Major  Ilunnells,  Company  II,  2d  S.  C.  Rifles. 

Tried  by  General  Court  Martial,  convened  under  General 
Orders,  No.  4,  of  August  4,  1863. 

Sentence — Death.  Remitted:  and  Private  Runnells  will  be 
released  from  confinement  and  returned  to  his  company. 

17.  Capt.  R.  Y.  L.  Long,  Company  D,  Phillips'  Legion  of 
Cavalry.  Charged  with  disobedience  of  orders  and  breach  of 
arrest. 

Sentence — To  be  cashiered.  Remitted :  and  Capt.  Long  will 
be  released  from  arrest  and  returned  to  his  company. 

Tried  under  Special  Orders,  No.  205,  of  August  11,  1863,  De- 
partment of  Northern  Virginia. 

18.  Capt.  R.  Z.  Ilarlee,  Company  D,  10th  S.  C.  Volunteers. 
Charged  with  drunkenness. 

Sentence — To  be  cashiered.  Remitted :  Capt.  Ilarlee  vyill  be 
released  from  arrest  and  returned  to  duty. 

Tried  by  Csurt,  convened  under  Special  Orders,  No.  134,  May 
20,  1863,  from  the  Army  of  Tennessee. 

19.  Private  Henry  Taylor,  Company  F,  11th  Miss.  Volunteers. 
Charged  with  theft. 

Sentence — To  have  his  head  shaved.  To  be  labeled  with  the 
word  "theft ;"  marched  through  eamp,  hat  off,  wearing  a  barrel 
— the  rogue's  march  to  be  played  during  the  time.  To  be  con- 
fined in  the  Penitentiary  two  years,  and  fed  on  bre&d  and  water 
fourteen  days. 

Sentence  remitted.  Private  Taylor  will  be  released  from  con- 
finement and  transferred  to  some  other  army. 

Tried  by  Couyt,  convened  under  General  Orders,  No.  133,  of 
Dec.  7,  1862,  Army  of  Noi-thern  Virginia. 


20.  Private  Freeman  W.  Johnson,  Read's  Battery  Light  Artil- 
lery. Chariied  with  disobedience  of  orders — violation  of  the  9th 
Article  of  War. 

Sentence — Death.  Commuted  to  labor  for  four  months,  and 
transferred  to  some  other  command. 

Tried  by  Court,  convened  under  General  Orders,  No,  133,  of 
December  7,  18G2,  Army  of  Northern  Virginia. 

21.  Private  John  Duncan,  Company  F,  3d  Tenn.  Volunteers, 
Charged  vsrith  absence  without  leave.  Illegal  and  outrageous  as- 
saults on  a  citizen.  Brutal  assaults  on  a  woman,  attempt  to  com- 
mit rape  on  two  occasions. 

Sentence — F'orfeiture  of  pay  and  allowancej",  and  imprison- 
ment for  twenty-five  years. 

Residue  of  sentence  remitted.  Private  Duncan  will  be  released 
from  confinement  and  returned  to  his  company. 

Tried  by  Court,  convened  under  General  Orders,  No.  36,  De- 
partment of  East  Tennessee. 

22.  Second  Lieut.  E.  II.  Ilammoll,  Company  B,  8th  Ark.  Vol- 
unteers.    Charged  with  quitting  his  guard  without  leave,  &c. 

Sentence — To  be  dismissed.  Commuted  to  two  months'  sus- 
pension from  rank  and  pay. 

Tried  by  Military  Court  of  Gen.  Hardee's  Corps,  May  26, 

18G3. 

23.  Private  T.  W.  Barlow,  of  Carne's  Light  Artillery.  Charged 
with  violating  the  46th  Article  of  War,  by  sleeping  on  post. 

Sentence — Death.  Ptemitted  :  and  Private  Barlow  will  be  re- 
leased from  confinement  and  returned  to  his  company. 

Tried  by  Court,  convened  under  General  Orders,  No.  66,  of 
March  13,  1863,  Army  of  Tennessee. 

24.  Lieut.  J.  R.  Simmons,  Company  E,  12th  Ga.  Volunteers. 
Charged  with  conduct  unbecoming  an  officer  and  gentleman. 

Sentence — To  be  dismissed.  Commuted  to  reprimand  in  orders; 
which  will  acconlingly  be  done  by  his  commanding  officer. 

Tried  by  the  Military  Court  of  Gen.  Ewell's  Corps,  August  6, 

leos. 

25.  Lieut.  E.  S.  McClung,  McClung's  Battery.  Charged  with 
violation  of  the  15th  and  39th  Articles  of  War,  and  conduct  to 
the  prejudice  of  good  order  and  military  discipline. 


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Senience^-Ho  be  cashiered,  and  disabled  to  hold  any  office  or 
employment  in  the  service  of  the  Confederate  States;  to  have 
his  name,  crime  and  place  of  abode  published  in  the  newspapers 
in  and  about  the  camp  of  Knoxville,  and  of  Huntsyille,  Alabama: 
after  which  it  shall  be  deemed  scandalous  for  an  officer  to  associ- 
with  him. 

Sentence — Commuted  to  dismissal  from  the  Confederate  service 
—•vhich  Lieut.  McClung  ceased  to  b©  an  officer  on  the  Hth  of 
1^'ebruary,  1863, 

IV.  The  80th  Article  of  War  provides,  that  where  the  sentence 
of  a  Court  Martial  is  death,  or  the  cashiering  of  an  officer,  tho 
ofScer  convening  the  Court  may  suspend  execution  of  the  sen- 
tence till  the  pleasure  of  tho  Piresident  of  the  Confederate  States 
be  known. 

The  intent  of  this  article  is  not  to  relieve  C  mmandlno;  Gen- 
erals of  responsibility,  but  to  enable  them,  in  difficult  and  doubt- 
ful cases,  to  refer  the  question  to  higher  authority.  3iut  it  has 
been  observed  that  in  many  cases,  where  the  course  to  be  pur- 
sued was  rendered  obvious  b.y  the  evidence,  commanding  officers 
havs  n©Ysrths>les8  availed  themselves  of  the  privilege  conlerred 
in  the  article  referred  to,  by  sending  on  the  reccrd  to  be  reviewed 
by  the  President.  The  duties  of  the  Executive  are  sufficiently 
onerous  without  the  accumalr.tion  of  such  matters  for  his  atten- 
tion, where  they  can  be  properly  disposed  of  eleewhere;  and 
while  it  is  not  designed  to  weaken  tho  provisions  of  the  articles 
of  war,  or  interfere  with  the  views  of  duty  enteytained  by  officers 
On  this  subject,  it  is  prop-er  to  remark,  that  there  are  cases  of 
capital  pviniahment  and  dismissal,  where  the  duty  of  the  Com- 
manding General  is  rendered  by  the  Court  record  too  plain  to  be 
tloubted,  and  in  which  tho  resjionsibility  "  in  tivic  of  war"  being 
fixed  upon  him  in  the  iiret  insituuco  ^y  tba  Jaw>  should  not  bs 
avoided. 


By  order. 


S.  COOPER, 

A'hidani  and  Insjyector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  ]  Adj't  anb  Insp'r  Gen'l's  OrricE^ 

No.  140.  )  Eiclimond,  Oct  27, 1B63. 

The  assignment  of  conscripts  will  be  diiected  by  the  Bureau  of 
Conscription   on^y,   escept  sioch   as   may   be  properly  made   by 
Brigadier  General  Pillow,  within  the  territory  allottzd  to  him,  in 
subordination  to  General  J.  E.  Johnston. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjuiaiii  and  In?r>cc(or  Generah 


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GENERAL  ORDERS,  |  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Officb, 

No.  141.  J  Bichmojid,  Oct.  29,  18G3. 

I.  The  practice  of  relieving  officers  from  commands  to  which 
they  have  been  appointed  and  assigned,  and  ordering  them  to  re- 
port in  person  to  this  office  for  further  assignment,  will  cease,  un- 
less specially  required  by  orders  from  this  office. 

II.  ISoldiers  returning  home  on  furlough,  or  on  reaching  plnces 
at  which  they  Mill  stay  during  furlough,  will  immediately  report 
to  the  nearest  enrolling  officer,  who  will  keep  a  register  of  their 
names,  descriptive  list,  place  where  stationed,  by  whom  the  fur- 
lough was  granted,  and  the  time  at  which  it  expires. 

III.  When,  at  the  expiration  of  his  furlough,  and  being  at  a 
distance  from  an  hospital  examining  board,  a  soldier  is  unable  to 
travel,  the  enrolling  officer  will  order  him  before  the  board  of  ex- 
aminers for  conscripts  ;  any  the  medical  officer  and  one  of  the 
physicians  "cmpU)yed"  concurring,  they  will  forward  to  his 
Commanding  General,  with  a  statement  of  his  case,  a  recommen- 
dation fur  an  exteneion  of  furlough,  rot  to  exceed  thirty  dajs, 
duplicates  being  also  sent  to  the  Surgeon  General.  But  when 
the  soldier  is  accessible  to  a  general  hospital,  he  will  be  sent  be- 
fore the  hospital  examining  board,  who  will  conform  to  the  pre- 
ceding instructions.* 

IV.  In  cases  of  sickness  or  wounds,  which,  from  any  cause, 
are  neglected,  or  do  not  receive  proper  treatment,  the  disability 
in  consequence  being  prolonged,  the  soldier  will  be  sent,  by  the 
enrolling  officer,  to  the  nearest  cump  of  instruction  for  treatment 
in  hospital. 

\.  Recommendations  for  extension  of  leave  to  officers  and  fur- 
loughs to  soldiers,  and  medical  certificates  to  officers  and  certifi- 
cates of  disability  for  discharge  to  soldiers,  will  only  be  given  by 
authorized  boards  of  examiners;  or,  in  cases  embraced  in  para' 
graph  III  of  this  Order,  by  the  board  of  examiners  for  con- 
scripts. Recommendations  or  certificates  from  private  physi- 
ci  ins,  or  from  a  medical  officer  singly,  will  not  be  received.  Para» 
graphs  171  and  173,  General  Regulations,  and  paragraph  I,  Gen- 
eral Orders,  No.  51,  current  series,  from  this  office,  are  amended 
to  accord  with  this  paragraph 

VI.  Furloughcd  soldiers  will  not  be  permitted  to  go  within  tho 
lines  of  the  enemy. 

*  Amended  by  Par.  II,  General  Orders,  No.  157. 


O/' 


UU 


VII.  In  the  medical  examination  of  substitutes,  the  instruc- 
tions tmd  requirements  of  paragraph  1192,  General  llegulations 
(parat;raph  48,  Medical  Regulations),  will  be  fully  adhered  to ; 
and  if  a  substitute  fails  to  meet  the  conditions  of  that  paragraph, 
he  will  be  rejected. 


By  order. 


S.  COOPER, 
Adjuiant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS, )  Adj't  and  Insp'r  GenVs  Office* 

No.  142.  )  Richmond,  Oct.  30,  1863. 

I.  The  requirements  of  the  army  making  it  necessary  that  the 
present  supply  of  artillery  horses  and  other  field  transportation 
be  carefully  husbanded,  and  a  more  perfect  system  of  supply 
adopted.  Major  A.  11.  Cole,  Inspector  General  of  Field  Trans- 
portation, in  addition  to  his  present  duties,  is  hereby  charged 
with  this  duty. 

II.  Under  his  orders,  all  inspections,  purchases,  impressments 
and  issues  of  field  transportation  (including  artillery  horses), 
will  be  made,  and  recruiting,  fabricating  and  repairing  done 
throughout  the  Confederate  States;  and  all  other  officers  are  pro- 
hibited from  purchasing  or  disposing  of  this  description  of  pro- 
perty, except  such  as  may  be  specially  authorized  to  purchase  by 
the  Commanding  General  of  an  army,  whose  field  of  operation  in 
such  cases  shall  be  confined  to  the  limits  of  the  army  and  the 
country  immediately  in  the  advance;  and  under  no  circumstances 
will  such  oflSccrs  be  allowed  to  purchase  within  any  district  of 
country  to  which  a  regularly  appointed  purchasing  ofticcr  has 
been  assigned. 

III.  The  Quartermaster  General  is  authorized  to  di.^trict  the 
Confederate  States  for  the  purposes  named,  and  will  assign  olTi- 
cers  to  the  duty,  who  will  control  the  subject  within  their  re- 
spective districts,  nnder  such  rules  and  regulations  as  he  may  es- 
tablish. 

IV.  OSBcers  charged  with  inspection  of  field  transportation 
arc  authorized  to  make  inspections  anywhere  within  the  limits  of 
their  assignment,  and  to  condemn,  and  order  to  be  turned  in  to 
the  nearest  post  quartermaster,  all  artillery  horses  and  other 
transportation  found  unserviceable,  to  be  so  disposed  of  as  tho 
chief  inspector  of  the  district  may  direct. 

\  ,  Chief  quartermasters  of  armies  or  quartermasters  at  posts 


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other  than  tho^e  in  the  field,  will  make  their  estimates  on  the 
chief  inspector  of  the  district  for  such  field  transportation  as  they 
may  require.  AVhen  necessary  for  the  protection  of  parties  coN 
lectrng  animals  near  the  enemy's  lines,  a  cavalry  escort  will  bo 
furnished  by  the  nearest  commander  of  troops. 

YI.  The  horses  and  other  property  in  use  in  the  Commissary 
Department  must  not  be  impressed  by  officers  of  any  other  de- 
partmeLt. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS, "I  Adj't  and  Insp'r  GenVs  Office, 

No.  143.  ]  Richmond,  Nov.  3,  1863. 

The  followinn;  notice  of  exchanged  officers  and  men  is  pub- 
libhed  for  the  information  of  all  concerned: 

Richmond,  Ya.,  Oct.  IG,  1SG3. 

The  followint;  Confederate  oQBcers  and  men  are  hereby  de- 
clared duly  exchanj^ed  : 

^  1.  All  officers  and  men  captured  and  paroled  at  any  time  pre- 
Tious  to  the  Ist  of  September,  1863.  This  section,  however,  is 
not  intended  to  include  any  officers  or  men  captured  at  Vicks- 
burg  July  4th,  18G3,  except  such  as  were  declared  exchanged  by 
Exchange  Notice,  No.  G,  Sept.  12th,  1863,  or  are  specially  named 
in  this  notice.  But  it  does  embrace  all  deliveries  made  at  City 
Point  or  other  places  before  Sept.  1st,  18G3,  and  with  the  limita- 
tion above  named,  all  captures  at  Port  Hudson  or  any  other  place 
where  the- parties  were  released  on  parole. 

2.  The  staff  of  Generals  Pemberton,  Stevenson,  Bowen,  Moore, 
Barton,  -S.  D.  Lee,  Cummings,  Harris  and  Baldwin,  an<l  of  Col- 
onels Reynolds,  Cockrell  and  Dockery  ;  the  officers  and  men  ))C- 
longing  to  the  engineer  corps  and  sappers  and  miners,  and  the 
4th  and  46th  Mississippi  regiments,  all  captured  at  Vicksbura: 
July  4th,  1863.  1 1       ^  '  F  t, 

3.  The  general  officers  captured  at  Vicksburg  July  4th,  1863, 
were  declared  exchanged  July  13th,  1863. 

Ro.   OULD, 
Agent  of  Exchange. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER. 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


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GENERAL  ORDERS,]  '  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  OrncE 

No.  144.  j  Richmond^  November  6,  1863. 

To  relieve  prevalent  misconceptions  in  regard  to  the  policy 
and  practice  of  the  Department  on  the  subject  of  impressment, 
the  following,  being  extracts  of  General  Orders  of  March  19th, 
is  repeated  : 

GENERAL  ORDERS,  ]  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  31.  J  Richmond,  March  19,  1863. 

In  consequence  of  numerous  applications  made  by  various 
persons  to  the  War  Department,  it  is  obvious  that  some  miscon- 
ception in  regard  to  the  instructions  of  the  Secretary  of  War  in 
rehation  to  the  impressment  of  supplies,  must  exist  on  the  part 
of  the  people,  or  that  the  agents  of  the  government  have  vio- 
lated their  instructions  :  Now,  therefore,  for  the  purpose  of  re- 
moving such  misconception,  and  to  prevent  any  violation  of  those 
instructions,  it  is  hereby  ordered: 

I.  That  no  oCBcer  of  the  government  shall,  under  any  circum- 
stances whatever,  impress  the  supplies  which  a  party  has  for  his 
own  consumption,  or  that  of  his  family,  employees  or  slaves. 

II.  That  no  ol'ce'r  shall  at  any  time,  unless  specially  or- 
dered so  to  do  by  a  General  commanding,  in  a  case  of  exigency, 
impress  supplies  which  are  on  their  way  to  market  for  sale  on 
arrival. 

III.  These  orders  were  included  in  the  instructions  originally 
issued  in  relation  to  impressment  by  the  Secretary  of  War  ;  and 
the  officers  exercising  such  authority  are  again  notified,  that  "any 
one  acting  without  or  beyond"  the  authority  given  in  those  iu- 
Btructions,  will  be  held  strictly  responsible. 

In  conformity  with  the  foregoing,  to  prevent  any  inconsiderate 
action  on  the  part  of  officers  or  agents  charged,  w'ith  the  duty  of 
impressment,  they  are  enjoined,  until  further  orders,  which  will 
not  be  given  unless  under  imperative  exigencies  for  the  supply 
of  the  army,  not  to  impress  any  necessaries  of  subsistence  to 
man,  owned  by  producers,  in  transitu  to  market,  or  after  arrival 
at  market,  unless  retained  an  unreasonable  time  from  sale  to 
consumers. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


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GENERAL  ORDERS, 
No.  145. 


Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 
Richmond,  November  7,  1863. 


The  following  appendix  to  the  report  of  the  appraisers  for  the 
State  of  Virginia  is  published  for  the  information  of  all  ccn 
cerned  . 

Hon.  James  A,  Seddon  : 

Sir, 

As  indicated  in  our  last  report,  vre  respectfully  sub- 
mit a  few  changes  in  our  schedules  of  prices.  Upon  the  various 
grades  of  cotton  and  woolen  cloths  and  warps  used  by  the  gov- 
ernment, we  assess  the  prices  annexed  to  each  description  of 
goods,  as  follows : 


67   Army      woolen 

• 

cloih,  J  yd, 

Good, 

10  oz.  per  yd., 

Per  yard. 

$5  00 

68  Army      woolen 

clotli, 

(( 

Pro  rata  as  to 
greater  or  less 

width  or  weight. 

69  Army      woolen 

cloth,  6-4  yd, 

(( 

20  oz.  per  yd. 

Per  yard, 

* 

10  00 

70  Ariijy      woolen 

cloth, 

(( 

Pro  rata  as  to 
greater  or  less 

width  or  weight. 

71   Flannels,  J, 

(( 

6  oz.  per  yd. 

Per  yard, 

4  00 

72  Cut'n  shirt'gs,  ^, 

(( 

4^   yds.  to  lb. 

((       (i 

50 

7Q         u               u            1 

u 

3|  yds.  to  lb. 

((       (( 

84 

74      "       sheetings, 

4-4, 

u 

3     yds.  to  lb. 

((       •( 

87J 

75  Cotton         ozna 

bnrgs,  f , 

(( 

6  oz.  per  yd. 

(C              (.1 

75 

76  Cotton        ozna- 

burgs,  |. 

(( 

S  oz.  per  yd. 

l(           u 

88 

77  Cotton  drills,  |^, 

u 

3  yds.   to  lb. 

11           l.\ 

88 

78        "        shining 

stripes, 

" 

3  yds.  to  lb. 

((          (( 

88 

70  Cot'n  tent  cl'th, 

a 

10  oz.  to  yd. 

((         (( 

1   12 

80* 

81  Cotton  warps, 

Good, 

— 

Per  pound, 

2  00 

Good  hay  taken  on  the  farms  of  producers,  uubaled,  we  assess 
at  three  dollars  per  100  lbs.,  and  good  wheat  straw,  taken  on  the 
farms  of  the  producers,  we  also  assess  at  one  dollar  and  thirty 

*0n  the  above  enumerated  cotlon  cloths,  pro  rata  as  to  greater 
or  less  width  or  v/eijcht. 


208 

cents  per  100  lbs,,  unbaled.  For  hauling  haj  and  wheat  stra^r, 
&c.,  per  100  lbs.,  eight  cents  per  mile,  and  for  hauling  corn  and 
wheat,  per  bushel,  four  cents  per  mile,  and  for  hauling  hay  and 
wheat  straw,  fifty  cents  per  100  lbs. 

Upon  farther  consideration,  we  have  assessed  the  price  of  good 
fat,  fresh  pork,  at  sixty  cents  per  pound  net  weight. 

We  respectfully  suggest  to  the  Secretary  of  War  to  have  our 
reports  and  schedules  printed  in  hand  bill  form,  and  that  several 
copies  be  furnished  to  each  of  the  quartermasters'  and  commissa- 
ries' agents  engaged  in  impressing  for  the  government. 
Most  respectfully, 

E.    W.    IIUBARD, 

ROBEKT    GiBBONEY, 

Connnissioners  for  Va. 


By  order. 


S.  COOPEE, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,")  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  146.  J  RicTimond,  November  9,  1863. 

I.  The  subjoined  statement  of  the  cost  of  clothing  for  the 
army  is  published  for  the  information  and  guidance  of  all  con- 
cerned : 

Statement  of  tie   Cost  of  Clothing  for  the  Army  of  the  Confede- 
rate slates,  for  the  year  commencing  January  1st,  1864. 

Cap,  complete,    -                -  -                -                -$2  00 

Cover,         ...  -                -                    38 

Jacket,                 -                -  -                •                -     14  00 

Trowsers,     -                -                -  .                .             12  00 

Shirt,  '           ^     -                -  ■                ■                '        'i^^ 

Drawers,      -                -                -  ■                -               3  00 

Shoes,  pairs,        -                -  -                •                -     10  00 

Socks,  (pairs,)  -                •  -                -                -          1  00 

Leather  stock,             ....  25 

Greatcoat,          -                 ■  -                •                 *     ^^  nn 

Stable  frock  (for  mounted  mes,)  -                -               2  00 

Fatigue  overall  (for  eng'rs  and  ord.,)  -                -       8  00 

Blanket,       -                •                -  -                -             10  00 

II.  From  tho  time  this  takes-  cflfecfc,  and  until  further  orders, 
EOldlers  will  be  charged  and  credited  on  account  of  clothing  to 


205 

which  they  are  entitled,  as  provided  in  General  Orders,  No.  100, 
last  series,  at  these  rates,  and  not  at  invoice  prices. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General, 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  1  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  147.  J  Richmond,  Nov.  17,  1863. 

For  the  due  authentication  of  Military  orders  exhibited  in  the 
evidence  before  the  judicial  tribunals,  it  is  hereby  declared  that 
the  Orders  of  the  Adjutant  and  Inspector  General  have  the  force 
of  Regulations,  for  the  government  of  f.U  branches  of  the  army, 
an. I  that  printed  or  written  copies  of  the  same  are  duly  au- 
thcnticated  when  endorsed  as  official  by  any  Assistant  Adjutant 
General,  or  by  any  Chief  of  a  Bureau  of  this  Department. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,]         Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  148.  ]  Richmond,  Nov.  18,  1863. 

I.  The  quarterly  returns  of  arms,  accoutrements  and  equip- 
ments in  the  hands  of  troops,  required  by  paragraph  1348  of  the 
Army  Regulations,  have  heretofore  been  furnished  in  a  very  few 
cases  only  by  commanding  officers  of  regiments  and  battalions. 
These  returns  are  deemed  essential,  and  will  hereafter  be  promptly 
rendered. 

II.  It  is  hereby  made  the  duty  of  Generals  commanding  bri- 
gades to  see  that  these  returns  are  made  on  the  1st  of  January, 
April,  July  and  October  of  each  year,  and  forwarded,  through 
the  regular  channels,  to  the  Chief  of  Ordnance  at  Richmond, 
within  twenty  days  after  these  dates  respectively. 

III.  Should  any  officer  fail  to  render  the  return  required  on 
the  Ist  of  January  next,  within  twenty  days  thereafter,  the  Bri- 
gadier General  commanding  the  brigade  to  which  the  oflBcer  is 
attached,  will  cause  charges  for  "disobedience  of  orders,"  or  of 
"  neglect  of  duty,"  as  the  case  may  require,  to  be  made  and  for- 
warded, without  delay,  to  the  General  commanding,  for  his 
action.  The  same  action  will  be  taken  ou  every  Bubsoquent 
omiseion  to  render  such  returns. 


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iV.  Brigade  and  district  ordnance  officers  -wiil  give  every  as- 
sistance to  colonels  of  regiments  and  officers  commanding  bat- 
talions, in  the  preparation  of  the  '*  retarns,"  according  to  the 
form  prescribed;  and  they  will  also  see  thatarms  and  accoutrements 
lot^t  by  the  men  are  duly  charged  against  them  on  the  muster 
rolls  of  their  respective  companies. 

V.  The  chief  ordnance  officer  of  every  army  and  department 
ivill  promptly  report  to  the  Chief  of  the  Ordnance  Bureau  every 
officer  in  the  command  to  vy^hich  he  is  attached,  who  fails  to  make 
the  "  returns''  herein  required. 


By  order. 


S.  COOPEH, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  1         Ai>j't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Offics, 
No.  149.  3  riicJimond,  Nov.  19,  1863. 

I.  The  pay  and  allovrances  of  men  detailed  for  work,  (except 
for  government  v^ork,)  v?ill  cease  during  such  detail,  and  in  lieu 
thereof,  full  wages  will  be  paid  them  by  the  persona  or  parties 
to  whom  they  are  ordered  to  report. 

II.  The  attention  of  all  commanding  officers,  whose  duty  it 
may  be  to  examine  the  Abstracts  of  Issues  of  Commissaries  or 
Assistant  Commissaries  of  Subsistence,  is  particularly  directed, 
to  General  Orders,  No.  12,  March  10th,  1862.  These  command-' 
ing  officers  will  also  see  that  only  the  number  of  enlisted  men 
actually  present  on  duty  are  included  in  "  provision  returns  ;" 
and  that  if  any  change  takes  place  in  that  number  during  the 
period  drawn  for,  that  a  corresponding  allowance  is  duly  made 
m  the  next  subsequent  return,  and  also  that  the  provisions 
drawn  are  well  taken  care  of  and  economically  used. 


By  order. 


S,  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,]  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen  i/s  Office, 

No.   160.  I  Richmond,  Nov  21,  1883- 

L  Enlisted  men  who  have  been  (or  may  become)  permanently 
disftbled>  and  who  hold  a  certificate  of  a  medical  examining  board 


207 

* 

to  that  effect,  and  who  have  not  been  discharged  the  service,  may 
have  their  rations  commuted  at  ($1  25)  one  dollar  and  twenty- 
five  cents  per  diem,  whether  they  are  in  a  hospital,  private  quar- 
ters, or  on  furlough. 

II,  Men  liable  to  conscription,  who  have  joined  companies  for 
local  defence,  will  be  discharged  from  such  companies  and  con- 
scribed.  This  order  is  not  intended  to  affect  companies  for  which 
special  exception  has  been  made  by  the  War  Department. 


By  order. 


S.  COOPER, 
AilJiUant  and  Inspeaor  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  "j  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'i/s  Office, 

No.  151.  ]  Jlichnond,  Koi\  23,  ISQ3. 

I.  Forage  in  kind  will  be  issued  to  officers  (entitled  to  it) 
stationed,  by  orders  from  the  War  Department,  ut  poses  and  not 
in  the  field,  fur  but  one  horse  each.  In  lieu  of  furage,  eight 
dollars  a  month  may  be  allowed  for  each  horse  to  which  the 
officer  may  be  entitled.  A  certificate  in  each  case  will  be  given, 
that  the  *'  horses  are  actually  kept  in  service  and  mustered.'' 

II.  Officers  of  the  atljutant  general,  quartermaster,  commissary 
(except  purchasing  commissaries),  medical  and  ordnance  depart- 
ments, signal  and  regimental  ottlcers  (except  commanders  of 
regiments),  and  subalterns  of  artillery,  who  are  serving  in  the 
field,  will  be  embraced  in  the  provisions  of  paragraph  I  of  this 
Order,  unless  otherwise  ordered  by  the  Commanding  General. 


By  order. 


S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,]  Adj't  and  In.sp't  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.    152.  ]  Richmond,  Nov,  24,  1SG3. 


T.  A  Court  of  Enquiry  having  been  convened  at  Jackson, 
Mississippi,  by  Special  Orders,  No.  41,  from  tliis  office,  dated 
February  18,  18G3,  amended  by  Special  Orders,  No.  43,  of  Febru- 
ary 20,  1863,  to  examine  and  report  the  facts  and  circumstances 
attending  the  capture  of  the  city  of  New  Orleans  by  the  e»iemy 
in  April,  18(32,  and  the  delencc  of  the  city  I'V  the  Confederato 


208 

troops  under  command  of  Mnjor  General  Mansfield  Lovell,  to- 
gether with  their  opinion  thereon :  and  the  Court  having  dis- 
charged the  duty  assigned  them,  their  opinion  is  published  for 
the  benefit  of  all  whom  it  may  concern,  ; , 

II.    Opinion  of  the  Conri. 

The  Court  having  maturely  considered  the  evidence  adduced, 
submit  the  following 

OPINION  : 

1.  As  against  a  land  attack  by  any  force  the  enemy  could 
probably  bring,  the  interior  line  of  fortifications,  as  adopted  and 
completed  by  Major  General  Lovell,  was  a  sufficient  defence  of 
the  city  of  New  Orleans ;  but  his  ability  to  hold  that  line  against 
eueh  an  attack  was  greatly  impaired  by  the  withdraw,',!  from 
him,  by  superior  authority,  of  Jiearly  all  his  efiective  troops. 

2.  The  exterior  line,  as  adopted  and  improved  by  him,  was  well 
devised,  and  rendered  as  strong  as  the  means  of  his  command 
allowed. 

3.  Until  the  iron  clad  gun  boats  Louisiana  and  Mississippi  should 
be  ready  for  service,  it  was  indispensably  necessary  to  obstruct 
the  na'»igatioa  of  the  Mississippi  river  between  Ports  Jackson 
and  Sb.  Philip.  The  raft  completed  under  General  Lovell's 
direction  was  adequate  for  the  purpose  while,  in  position  ;  but  it 
was  swept  away,  and  left  the  river  unimpeded,  either  by  reason  of 
some  error  in  its  construction,  or  neglect  in  preventing  the  accu- 
mulation of  drift,  or  because  cvf  insuperable  mechanical  diffi- 
culties, as  to  which  this  Court  feels  unprepared  to  give  an  opinion. 
General  Lovell  communicated  to  the  government  no  opinion  as  to 
the  insecurity  of  the  raft,  nor  any  apprehension  that  it  might  be 
swept  away,  nor  did  he  immediately. make  known  that  fact  when 
it  occurred.  In  this  it  is  considered  that  he  was  remiss  in  his 
duty. 

4.  When  the  raft  was  swept  away.  Gen.  Lovell,  with  great 
energy,  immediately  endeavored  to  replace  it,  and  partially  suc- 
ceeded;  but  without  fault  on  his  part,  this  last  obstruction  was 
broken  by  the  carelessness  of  vessels  of  the  "river  defence  fleet'* 
colliding  with  it,  and  by  fire  rafts  drifting  against  it,  and  by 
the  failure  of  the  guard  boats  to  [protect  it  against  night  expe- 
ditions of  the  enemy. 

5.  The  non-completion  of  the  iron  clad  gun  boats  Louisiana 
and  Mississippi  made  it  impossible  for  the  navy  to  co-operate 
efficienfly  with  Gen.  Lovell. 

6.  The  so-called  river  defence  fleet  was  wholly  useless  as  a 
means  of  resistance  to  the  enemy,  for  which  Gen.  Lovell  was  iii 
no  wise  responsible. 


209 

7.  Under  tl.e  existing  circumstances,  the  passage  of  the  forts 
by  the  enemy's  fleot  could  not  have  been  prevented  by  General 
Lovcll  with  any  means  under  his  control;  and  the  forts  being 
passed,  the  fall  of  New  Orleans  was  inevitable,  and  its  evacu- 
ation a  military  necessity. 

8.  When  the  first  raft  was  broken,  and  the  danger  of  New 
Orleans  thus  became  imminent,  all  necessary  preparation  should 
have  been  made  for  remcning  tlio  public  property  and  private 
property  avaihible  for  military  uses ;  and  when  the  second  ob- 
struction was  swept  away,  the  removal  of  such  property  should 
have  been  commenced  immediately.  The  failure  to  take  these 
timely  steps  caused  the  losses  of  property  that  occurred  ;  but 
there  was  comparatively  but  little  property  lost  for  which  Gen. 
L'lvell  was  responsible. 

9.  The  failure  of  Gen.  Lovcll  to  give  proper  orders  to  Brig.  Gen. 
^I.  L.  Smith  for  the  retirement  of  his  command  from  Chalmette, 
is  not  sufficiently  exphiined,  and  is  therefore  regarded  as  a  seri- 
ous error. 

10.  The  proposition  of  Gen.  Lovcll  to  return  to  New  Orleans 
with  his  command,  was  not  demanded  by  his  duty  as  a  soldier, 
involving  as  it  did  the  useless  sacrifice  of  himself  and  his  troopei, 
though  it  explains  itself  upon  the  ground  of  sympathy  for  the 
population  and  a  natural  sensitiveness  to  their  reproaches. 

11.  Gen.  Lovell  displayed  great  energy  and  an  untiring  indus- 
try in  performing  his  duties.  Ilis  conduct  was  marked  by  all 
the  coolness  and  self-possession  due  to  the  circumstances  and  his 
position  ;  and  he  evinced  a  high  capacity  for  command,  and  the 
clearest  foresight  in  many  of  his  measures  for  the  defence  of  New 
Orleans. 

The  Court  respectfully  report,  that  its  assembly  was  delayed 
by  the  failure  of  its  President  to  receive  his  orders  in  due  time, 
and  that  its  session  was  protracted  by  the  taking  of  testimony 
under  the  order  of  the  AVar  Department,  as  to  the  conduct  of 
naval  officers  on  duty  in  Department  No.  1.  This  order  was  re- 
scinded, thus  rendering  useless  and  irrelevant  much  of  the  labor 
of  the  Court.  The  testimony  referred  to,  although  appearing  on 
record,  was  not  considered  by  the  Court  io  determining  its  find- 
ings and  opinion. 

in.  The  Court  of  Enquiry  in  the  foregoing  case  is  hereby  dis- 
solved. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspcciur  General. 


210 

GENERAL  OKDERS,  1  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  153.  j  Richmond,  Nov.  25,  1863. 

Abuses  having  occurred,  from  misconception  of  the  force  due 
to  the  passports,  certifying  to  citizenship  of  the  Confederate 
States,  "which  are  issued  by  the  Secretary  of  State,  as  matter  of 
right  to  any  citizen  for  use  in  foreign  countries,  it  is  announced 
that  such  passports  are  not  intended  to  have,  and  have  not  any 
effect  vrhatever,  in  the  Confederacy,  to  entitle  to  pass  the  Con- 
federate lines,  or  to  sail  from  Confederate  ports,  without  due 
compliance  with  all  police  or  military  regulations  prevailing 
there;  or  to  esempt  from  military  or  other  service  imposed  by 
lavr  or  regulations. 


By  order. 


S.  COOPER, 
Acljutani  and  Inspector  General, 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  |  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  154.  J  Richmond,  Nov.  26,  1863. 

I.  No  ordnance  or  ordnance  stores  other  than  those  prescribed 
in  the  Ordnance  Manual,  edition  of  1863,  or  specially  approved 
by  the  Ordnance  Bureau,  are  allowed  to  be  purchased  or  fabri- 
cated. The  permission  given  to  officers  by  paragraph  1232, 
Army  Regulations  (paragraph  9,  Ordnance  Regulations),  to  pro- 
vide ordnance  and  ordnance  stores,  "  in  case  of  urgent  necessi- 
ty/' is  to  be  exercised,  subject  to  the  above  restrictions. 

II.  Accounts  paid  by  disbursing  officers  for  the  purchase, 
fabrication,  or  repair  of  ordnance  and  ordnance  stores,  contrary 
to  the  foregoing  order,  will  not  be  admitted  in  the  settlement  of 
their  accounts. 


By  order. 


S.  COOPER. 
Adjutant  and  Insjjecior  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  ]  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  OprieK, 

No.  155.  J  BicTimond,  Nov.  28,  1863. 

I.  In  order  that  detachments,  unaccompanied  by  quartermas- 
ters, may  be  supplied  with  the  means  of  obtaining  forage,  quar- 
termasters of  the  regiments  or  commands  to  which  they  belong 
are  hereby  authorized  to  furnish  to  the  officer  in  command,  or 
such  other  olSc^r  rs  may  be  designated,  suifioient  funds  for  th^t 


1 


211 

purpose,  upon  duplicate  receipts  being  given  therefor.  Upon  the 
return  of  the  detachment,  the  oflBcer  receiving  such  funds  shall 
return  to  tho  quartermaster  an  account  of  the  expenditures  for 
forapre,  which  will  exhibit  the  amount  expended,  the  number  of 
animals,  and  the  time  during  which  they  shall  have  been  sub- 
sisted. Upon  the  rendition  of  such  accouutp,  and  the  re-payment 
of  any  unexpended  balance  in  his  hand?,  tho  officer  will  be  enti- 
tled to  the  return  of  his  original  receipts,  and  the  cuartermaster 
will  account  for  the  forage  so  obtained,  as  if  tho  same  had  been 
purchased  and  issued  by  him. 

II.  When  small  detachments  are  sent  off,  unaccompanied  by  ft 
commissioned  officer,  quartermasters  are  authorized  to  commute 
their  fornge  ratiuna  in  advance,  for  the  time  designated  in  the 
order  for  such  detached  service,  filing  a  certified  copy  of  such  or- 
der in  support  of  the  voucher  ;  or  upon  the  return  df  detach- 
ments to  their  commands,  when  no  funds  shall  have  been  sup- 
plied under  the  foregoing  provisions,  expenditures  incurred  for 
i'urage  by  the  officer  in  command  of  such  detachments,  within  the 
regulation  allowance,  may  be  reimbursed  by  the  quartermaster 
of  the  command,  upon  accounts  supported  by  affidavits,  and  ap- 
proved by  the  commanding  officer. 
By  order 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General, 


GENERAL  ORDERS,   |         Adj't  and  Insp'r  GenVs  Orrics, 
No.  156.  )  Bklimond,  Nov.  30,  1863. 

I.  At  a  General  Court  Martial,  convened  by  Special  Order:, 
No.  196,  of  x\ugu8t  10,  1863,  Head  Quarters  Army  of  Northern 
Virginia,  was  arraigned  and  tried  *» 

Col.  R.  M.  Mayo,  47th  Va.  Regiment,  on  the  following  Chargd 
and  Specification : 

Charge— Drunkenness  on  duty. 

Specification — In  this,  that  Col.  R.  M-  Mayo,  4Tth  Virginift 
Regiment,  while  on  duty  in  command  of  the  provost  guard  afc 
llagerstown,  Md.,  for  the  protection  of  its  inhabitnnts,  and  the 
eHtablishment  of  order  and  quiet  in  tr  e  town,  did  become  intoxi- 
cated on  or  about  the  8th  of  July,  lh'G3. 

11.  Finding  and  Sentence  of  the  Court. 

The  Court  find  the  accused,  Col.  R.  M.  Mayo,  "ITth  Virginift 
Regiment,  as  follows  ; 


Q10 

Of  the  Specification,  Guilty. 

Of  the  Charge,  Guilty. 

And  do  therefore  sentence  him  to  be  cashiered. 

III.  The  proceedings  in  the  foregoing  case,  approved  by  the 
Commanding  General,  having  been  submitted  to  the  President, 
with  the  recommendations  of  the  officers  formerly  associated 
with  Col.  Mayo,  and  others,  for  his  restoration,  the  following  is 
the  President's  decision  in  the  case; 

*'  Sentence  remitted,  on  the  recommendations  submitted.  Let 
the  officer  be  restored  to  duty." 

Col.  Iv.  M.  Mayo,  47th  Virginia  Volunteers,  is,  therefore,  re- 
stored to  his  command,  and  will  immediately  report  for  orders  to 
Gen.  R.  E.  Lee. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General, 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  ]  Adj't  and  Insp'e  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  157.  ]  Richmond,  Dec,  1,  186S. 

I.  The  provisions  of  paragraph  I,  General  Orders,  No.  67, 
current  series,  are  hereby  extended  so  as  to  include  officers  of 
the  Commissary  Department,  and  such  agents  of  that  department 
as  have  been  appointed  by  the  Secretary  of  War. 

IL  When  a  soldier,  ordered  before  a  "board  of  examiners  for 
conscripts,"  or  a  "  hospital  examining  board,"  in  pursuance  of 
paragraph  III,  General  Orders,  No.  141,  current  series,  is  imable 
to  appear  by  reason  of  physical  disability,  he  will  forward  to  the 
enrolling  officer  a  certificate  to  this  effect,  signed  by  his  attend- 
ing physician,  which  certificate  will  also  embrace  a  full  and  ac- 
curate statement  of  the  case.  The  enrolling  officer  will  gubmifc 
the  certificate  to  either  board,  who,  in  conference  with  him,  will 
make  upon  it  such  recommendation  as  may  be  warranted  by  the 
facts  ascertained  and  the  character  of  the  parties.  This  recom- 
mendation, with  the  statement,  will  be  forwarded  as  directed  in 
the  paragraph  above  quoted. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General, 


213 


GENERAL  ORDERS, 


Adj*t  and  Insp'r  Gf.n'l's  Office, 
Richmond,  Aug.  3,  1863. 


No.  158.  ) 

The  following  is  published  as  a  schedule  of  the  average  cost  of 
arms,  parts  of  arms,  and  accoutrements,  as  required  by  para- 
graph 78  of  Ordnance  Regulations  : 


■;      PERCUSSION    LOOK. 

PARTS. 

Model  1842. 
1      Musket. 

1 

o 

CO 

f/3 

Barrel  with  sight,  withoiU  breech, 

i-^'lO   25 

11   15 

5  00 

Breech  screw,                .       ,      . 

i            CG 

50 

42 

Bayonet  or  band  stud, 

i            0:2 

02 

Tang  screw,     .             .             . 

i            IS 

18 

15 

Cone,    . 

.                           , 

i            17 

17 

17 

Lock  ])late. 

,                           ^ 

\        1   35 

1   35 

1  08 

Tumbler, 

!             US 

98 

92 

Tumbler  screw, 

•                           . 

i           05 

05 

05 

Bridle,  : 

, 

i            34 

34 

31 

Sear,     . 

, 

74 

74 

62 

Sear  spring, 

K                                        , 

44 

44 

39 

Main  spring,     . 

»                                        , 

1   OC 

1   00 

1  00 

Lock  screws,  each, 

»                                        . 

04 

04 

04 

Hammer, 

, 

72 

72 

54 

Side  plate  (with  band 

for  pistol,) 

IS 

12 

90 

Side  screws,  each, 

, 

21 

21 

17 

Upper  band,     . 

, 

09 

17 

Middle  band,  . 

. 

45 

45 

Lower  band,    . 

,              , 

17 

17 

Upper  band  spring,     . 

, 

14 

14 

Middle  band  spring,    . 

, 

M 

14 

Lower  band  spring, 

,              , 

»             • 

14 

14 

('Hard  i)late. 

,■              , 

70 

70 

50 

Guard  plate  screws,  each, 

00 

06 

04 

(Jnard  bow,  willioiit  swivels, 

4S 

48j 

28 

Guard  bow  nut,  eacli. 

10 

10 

10 

Swivels  and  rivets,  each, 

25 

25 

Triirger,              .... 

19 

19 

15 

Trigger  screw,               . 

04 

04 

04 

Butt  phite,          .... 

2  05 

2  051 

Butt  phite  screw,  each 

. 

10 

1'^ 

05 

214 


Schedule  of  PliiCEs— Continued. 


-  ■    ■         ■                          .         .                               ,  -        ■   -It.   ,    .. 

PtEIlCUSfilON    LOCK. 

PARTS. 

Model  1842. 
Musket. 

■    1 

00       . 

o 

2 

to 

o 

(0 

O 

Ramrod,            ..... 

!$    3  28 

3  56 

1  60 

Ramrod  spring, 

60 

Ramrod  wires, 

02 

Ramrod  stop,  .              .             .         * 

02 

02 

Stock,    .... 

3  20 

3  20 

PiHyonet, 

5  48 

5  4S 

Bayonet  clasp, 

31 

31 

Bayonet  clasp  screw,  . 

04 

04 

Ramrod  swivel  and  rivet,        .              , 

- 

~ 

m 

Ramrod  swivel  and  rivet  screw, 

- 

_ 

Oi 

Sword  bayonet  biade, 

- 

6  00 

Sword  bayonet  hilt,  without  clasp, 

- 

6  00 

Sight  base, 

- 

32 

Long  branch  (leaf.) 

- 

19 

Short,    ..... 

- 

IS 

Sight  screws,  each, 

„ 

05 

Sight,  complete. 

- 

82 

Barrel,  completej 

10  81 

11   71 

Lock,  complete, 

5  88 

5  88 

Guard,  complete, 

1   75 

1   75 

Bayonet,  complete, 

6  00 

6  00 

Arm,  complete,  with  bayonet, 

41    00 

42  00 

Enfield  ride,  complete,              .    - 

- 

GO  00 

Appendages  for  all  arms: 

Screw  driver  and  cone  wrench, 

1   50 

1   50 

I  50 

Wiper,                .... 

75 

75 

75 

Bail  screw,       .... 

75 

75 

•      75 

Spring  vice, 

1    50 

1    50 

1  50 

Schedule  oy  Prices — Continued. 


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$0  60 

71 

_ 

_ 

79 

90- 

Hilt, 

>  Head,     . 

2   10 

1   85 

3  70 

3  36 

1   64 

1   98 

7  Guard,    . 

3  30 

2  44 

- 

— 

3  93 

1   98 

Blade, 

"]  Moiith-piece, 

8  50 
60 

8  32 
42 

9  05 

4  47 

7  20 

8  64 

Bod/,      . 

3  60 

4  20 

2  13 

1  30 

2   16 

2  25 

Scabbard 

}►  Bands  &  rings,  . 

1  80 

2   52 

1  Ferula  &  stud,    . 

50 

54 

1  06 

84 

1    14 

1    13 

J  Tip,        . 

- 

- 

J   06j 

53 

1    14 

1    12 

Arm,  coir 

plete. 

21  00 

21  00 

17  00! 

10  50 

18  00  18  00- 

iU 


Schedule  of  Prices — Continued. 


By  order. 


ACCOUTREMENTS. 

PARTS. 

>> 

tm 

>. 

c 

a> 

'a 

a> 

^ 

•^ 

> 

<C 

t-i 

vi 

< 

Q 

e^ 

Cartridge  box, 

$  6  00 

_ 

4  50 

5  50 

Cartridge  box  belt  (leather,) 

2  57 

Cartridge  box  belt  (canvass,) 

1   50 

Bayonet  scabbard  and  frog, 

2  57 

"Waist  belt  (leather,)    . 

2  06 

— 

_ 

2  06 

Waist  belt  (canvass,) 

1   50 

Cap  pouch  and  pick,  . 

2  23 

— 

2  23 

2  23 

Gun  sling. 

1   20 

- 

1  20 

1  20 

Sabre  belt, 

_ 

5  00 

5  00 

Sword  belt, 

— 

5  00 

Carbine  sling,  . 

, 

- 

6  00 

Powder  flask  (tin,) 

50 

Canteen, 

1  25 

Canteen  strap. 

25 

Knapsacks, 

6  50 

. 

Haversacks, 

50 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  |        Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  159.  J  Richmond,  Dec.  4,  1863. 

I.  Hospitals  for  prisoners  of  Var  aro  placed  on  the  same  foot- 
ing as  other  C.  S.  hospitals  in  all  respects,  and  will  be  managed 
accordingly. 

II.  The  hospital  ration  is  fixed,  until  further  orders,  at  the 
same  rates  of  issues  now  made  to  soldiers  in  the  field.  If  a 
greater  allowance  is  required  of  any  particular  articles,  special 
requisitions  must  be  made  therefor.* 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  Oeneral. 


••Amendfcd.     Sd»  Gen.  Ojcders,  No.  164. 


21T 


GENERAL  ORDERS, 


Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 


No.  160.  J  Richmond,  Dec.  7,  1863. 

I.  The  following  schedules  of  prices  for  articles  named  there* 
in,  adopted  by  conimissioneib  appointed  pursuant  to  law,  for  the 
State  of  Virginia,  are  announced  for  the  information  of  all  con- 
cerned;  and  the  special  attention  of  officers  and  agents  of  the 
government  is  directed  thereto : 

II.  Richmond,  December  4,  1863. 
Hon.  Jas.  A.  Seddon, 

Sir — In  revising  and  preparing  the  schedules  of  prices  for  Be- 
oember  and  January,  we  requested  the  aid  of  Mr.  Wni,  B.  Har- 
rison, and  it  is  proper  to  add  that  the  prices  agreed  upon  receiv- 
ed the  unanimous  approval  of  the  commissioners.  We  respect- 
fully offer  the  accompanying  schedules  A  and  B,  with  the  under- 
stiinding  that  the  pri&es  therein  indicated  are  to  remain  fur  the 
months  of  December  and  January,  unless  in  the  interval  it  should 
be  deemed  by  us  necessary  to  m()<lify  them. 

The  following  schedules  pra-ent  fbe  max!  num  prices  to  be  paid 
for  the  articles  appraised, at  all  cities  and  «jpual  places  of  sale,  and 
when  impressed -elsewhere,  the  eame  prices  are  to  be  paid  elnewherG, 
less  tlie  cost  of  transportation  to  the  city  or  usuiil  place  of  sale  to 
which  the  article  would  go  ordinarily  for  sale  from  tlmt  neigh- 
borho(;d,  or  less  the  cost  of  transportation  to  the  point  at  which 
the  government  needs  the  article,  and  wishes  it  to  be  sent :  Fro- 
vided,  that  in  no  case  the  amount  deducted  for  transportation  as 
above  shall  esceed  25  cents  per  bushel  for  grain,  and  25  cents  per 
cwfe.  for  long  forage,  fiour,  bacon,  iron,  <fec.  In  addition  to  the 
established  price  of  transportation,  th-e  government  to  pay  all 
legal  tolls,  and,  where  farmers  csnnot  procure  nails  for  baling 
forage,  government  to  furoiah  the  same  at  cost,  which  will  be  de- 
ducted from  the  established  price  for  baling: 

Schedule  A. 


.   t 

ARTICLB. 

QUAL 

DESCRIPTION. 

QUANTITY. 

PRICE. 

1    Wheat, 

Prune. 

VVliite  or  red, 

Pr  bush  of     60  Ihs 

$  5  00 

2   Flour, 

Good, 

Fine, 

Pr  barrel  of  196  lbs. 

'2-2  00 

ii 

" 

Superfine, 

U                           il                  t( 

•25  00 

<( 

»* 

Ex.  supVfine 

<(                         (|                 u 

26  50 

i( 

1 

Family, 

U                         <(                 <( 

28  00 

3  Corn, 

Prime, 

Wh'eoryellw 

Pr  bush  of    56  lbs. 

4  00 

4  UnshoUed  ctjX]a» 

*t " 

u                n 

«       56  lbs. 

3  05 

b  CcmmWt 

<sd^,  j 

"       W  IbB.      4  20 

10 

218 
ScB«DULE  A — Continued. 


ARTICLE. 

< 
o 

DESCEIPTIOK. 

<5i:i.KTITY. 

PEICE. 

6  Rye, 

Prir  a, 

Per  bush  of  56  lbs. 

$  3  20 

7   Cieaned  oatSj 

C( 

V'         "        32  lbs. 

2  50 

8   W I: eat  bran, 

Goo  , 

»          "         17  lbs. 

50 

9  SiK.rts, 

n 

»          "        22  lb>. 

70 

10   Brown  ftnff, 

u 

'-'          "        28  tbs. 

90 

1       Ship   6t'.!tF, 

ft 

"        •»        3?  lbs 

1  40 

i:i   Bacon, 

" 

Hog  round. 

Per  pound, 

1   25 

13  Salt  pork, 

(( 

a 

1    10 

Fresh  pork, 

Fat  :z 

. 

gOf.d, 

Per  lb.  net  weight, 

80 

14  Lard, 

Good, 

Per  pound, 

1   2S 

15  HorseSj 

Istcl's 

Artillery^  kc 

Av'ge  price  pr  head 

350  OO 

'}6  Wooli 

Fair  or 

Mer'o 

Waslsed, 

Per  pound, 

3  00 

17  Wool, 

Fair  or 

Mer'o 

Unwashed, 

11 

2  00 

18  Peas, 

Good, 

Per  bush  of  60  lbs. 

4  00 

19  Beans, 

(( 

4(                                    (i          U 

4  00 

20  Potatoes, 

,  u 

Irish, 

« 

4  00 

21  Potatoes, 

(( 

Sweet, 

IS- 

5  00 

22  Onions, 

Good, 

"         "        60  lbs. 

5  00 

23  Dried  peaches. 

(( 

Pealed, 

"          of  38  lbs. 

8  00 

24  Dried  peaches, 

i( 

Unpealed, 

"          of  38  lbs. 

4  50 

25  Dried  apples, 

<( 

Pealed, 

«'          of  28  lbs 

3  00 

26  Hay,  baled, 

Timothy  or 

« 

clover, 

Per  100  pounds. 

3  50 

27  Hay,  baled, 

Orchard  or 

u 

herd  grass, 

(t              a 

3  00 

28  Hay,  unbaled, 

Orchard  or 

<« 

herd  grass, 

H                  e. 

3  00 

29  Sh'f  oats,  baled, 

u 

^t                   ti 

4  00 

30  Sh'foats,  unb'd, 

(( 

i«                         ii 

3  50 

31  Blade  fod'r,  b'd, 

(( 

ti                        <l 

3  50 

32  Bl  fodder,  nnb'd 

(( 

((                         (( 

3  00 

33  Shucks,  baled, 

l( 

ii                          «S 

2  20 

34  Shucks,  unb'd, 

(( 

U                       ii 

1  70 

35  Wheat  straw. 

baled, 

C( 

((             (( 

1  80 

36  Wheat  straw. 

unbaled, 

cc 

((              a 

1  30 

37  Pasturage, 

Good; 

Interior, 

Per  baod  pr  month, 

3  00 

38         " 

Sup't 

Ct 

St                             (<        ^ 

■    4  00 

39         '' 

iBt  r't* 

H 

<(                                    M 

5  C^ 

219 


Schedule  A^-— Continned. 


ARTICLES. 


40  Pasturage, 

41  '* 

42  " 

43  Salt, 

44  Soap, 

45  Candles, 
4  6   Vinegar, 

47  Whiskey, 

48  Sugar, 

49  Molasses, 
5U  Rice, 

5 1   CofTee, 
5'?  Tea, 

53  Vinegar, 

54  Pig  iron, 
f-)5  Pig  iron, 

56  Pig  iron, 

57  Bloom  iron, 

58  Smith's  iron, 

59  Railroad  iron, 

60  Leather, 

61  " 
m       " 

63  Beef  cattle, 
€4  " 

65  '■' 

66  Sheep, 

67  Army  woollen 

cloth,  I  yd. 

68  Army  woollen 

cloth, 

69  Amy  woollen 

cloth,  6  4  yd. 

70  Army  woollen 

cloth, 

71  Flannels,  | 

72  Cotton  shirt'g.l 

73  ''  "        I 

74  Cotton  fheet- 

inus,  4-4, 

75  Cotton  ozna- 


DESCRIPTION. 


jGooil,    Near  cities, 
ISnp'r,  I  '^ 

Ut  r'te 
Good, 


Tallow, 
Cider, 
[Trade, 
I  Brown, 
iNew  Orleans, 

Rio, 
iTrade, 
JManufactM, 

I  No.  1  quality, 

}No.  2       " 
iNo.  3       " 


[Per  bush  of  50  lbs. 
|Per  pound, 

i  u 

Per  gallon, 


Per  potmd. 
Per  gallcu, 
Per  poundj 


Per  gallon, 
Per  ton, 


Sup  r, 
1st  r'te 
Fair, 

Good, 


Round,  plate  j 

and  bar,        Per  ton, 

u 

Harness,  Per  pound-, 

Sole,  !       " 

Upper,  I       " 

GroB3  weight,  Per  100  pounds, 

a  a 

(«  a 

Per  head, 

P  'r  yard,  • 

Width  or  weight, 

P  r  yard, 

V  idth  or  weight, 
F   r  yard, 


10  oz.  per  yd. 
Pro  rata  as  to 
greater  or  less 


2C  oz.  per  yd. 
Pro  rata  as  to 
greater  or  less 
6  oz.  per  yd. 
4i  yds.  to  lb. 
-|3|  yds.  to  lb. 

13  yds.  to  lb. 

I 
I 

'G  oz.  per  yd. 


00 
00 
40 
00 
00 
CO 
50 


10  00 

2u 


7  00 
50 
150  00 
il32  00 
120  00 
216  00 

456  00 

190  00 

2  60 

2  40 

2  80 

16  00 

18  00 

20  00 

30  OO 

5  00 


10  00 


4  00 
56 
84 


87 
75 


2^0 


Schedule  A — Continued. 


>> 

H 

1 

ARTICS,E. 

1-3 

< 
& 

DSSGRIPTION. 

QUANTITY. 

PRicar. 

76  Cotton  ozna- 

, 

burjis,  |-, 

(( 

8  oz,  per  yd. 

Per  yard. 

$       88 

77  Cotton  drills.  |, 

(C 

3  yds.  to  lb. 

u 

88 

78  Cotton  shirting 

-• 

stripes, 

(( 

3  yds.  to  lb. 

a 

88 

79  Cotton  tent 

ciottiSj 

" 

10  oz.  t0  yd. 

(( 

1   12 

80* 

81  Cotton  warps, 

(( 

Per  p'ound, 

2  GO 

8'2   Arniy  shoes, 

u 

Per  pair, 

10  00 

83   Shoe  thread, 

a 

. 

Per  pound, 

2  00 

84  Wool  socks  for 

men, 

(f 

Per  pair. 

1  25 

S5   Mules, 

1st  r'te 

Wagon^  &c. 

Av'e  price  pr  head, 

300  00 

8S'  Corntop  fodder, 

baled, 

Good, 

Per  100  pounds, 

2  00 

87  Corntop  fodder, 

un  baled, 

.  u 

u                   u 

1  5a 

88  Wheat  chaff,     • 

baled. 

ct 

H                           (( 

2  00 

89  Wheat  chaff, 

unbaled, 

« 

SI                                t( 

1   50 

90  Sorghum  mo- 

lasses. 

" 

Per  gallon, 

8  00- 

91   Pasturage  f&r     ] 

sheep,              j 

u 

Interior, 

Per  head, 

40 

92  Pasturage  for 

sheep. 

Sup'r, 

j 

(I         i( 

50 

93  Pasturage  for 

sheep, 

1st  r'te 

(( 

U               ((                                   i 

60 

In  assessing  the  average  vahie  of  '*  first  class  artillery  and 
■wa^on  horses  at  $350,"  we  designed  that  the  term  should  be  ac- 
ajepted  and  acted  upon  accord'ng  to  its  obvious  common  sens© 
import.  In  other  words,  that  horses  should  be  selected,  and  then 
impressed  accordingly  as  their  working  qualities  and  adaptation 
to  army  service,  together  with  their  intrinsic  value,  would  war- 
rant  a  judicious  purchaser  in  considering  them  as  coining  within 
the  contemplation  of  the  corainisfeituersj  when  they  assessed  the 


*  On  the  above  enumerated  cotton  eloths,  pro  rata  as  to  greater 
m  less  width  or  weight,  « 


2il 

average  value  of  such  horses  aa  the  ^)rernment  needed,  at  $350^ 
But  oases  might  arise,  however,  when  the  public  exio^enoies  vrould 
be  80  urgent  as  to  demand  that  al  horses  at  hand  should  be  im- 
pressed. Yofc  under  ordinary  circumstances,  when  family  or  ex- 
tra blooded  horses,  or  brood  mares  of  adiintied  high  value  are  im- 
pressed, we  respectfully  suggest  to  the  Secretary  of  War  to  have 
instructions  forwarded  to  the  impressing  officers  to  propose  and 
allow  the  owners  to  substitute  in  their  stead  such  strong,  sound 
and  serviceable  horses  or  mules  as  shall  be  considered  and  valued 
by  competent  and  disinterested  parties  as  first  class  artillery 
horses,  or  first  rate  wagon  mule?. 

The  term  ''average  value  per  head"  was  used  in  contradistinc* 
tion  to  a  fixed  and  uniform  price  for  each  horse  or  mule.  Wo 
supposed  that  in  impressing  a  number  of  horses  or  mules,  whe- 
ther owned  by  several  persons,  or  one  individual,  that  snme 
might  be  estimated  at  $250,  or  even  at  less,  and  others  at  differ- 
ent advanced  rates,  according  to  their  worth,  up  as  high  as  $450, 
or  above  that  amount — thus  making  an  average  value  or  price  for 
a  number  of  good,  sound  and  efficient  horses,  $350  each,  and 
mules  §300  each. 

in  illustration  of  our  views,  we  will  add,  that  a  horse  with 
only  one  eye  sound,  might,  in  all  other  respects,  be  classed  as  a 
first  rate  artillery  horse,  yet  the  loss  of  one  eye  would  justly  and 
considerably  curtail  his  value.  So  a  horse  from  10  to  18  years  of 
age  might  be  deemed  in  all  other  particulars  as  a  first  class  artil- 
}ery  horee,  but  of  course,  however  efficient  or  able  to  render  good 
service  for  a  year  or  so,  yet  his  advanced  age  wouIcT  justly  and 
materially  impair  his  value.  Any  horse,  however  he  may  ap- 
proximate the  standard  of  a  first  class  artillery  horse,  must,  ac- 
cording to  deficiencies,  fall  below  the  maximum  price;  and  as 
few  comparatively  exactly  come  up  to  the  standard,  and  therefore 
are  entitled  to  the  maximum  price,  so  of  course  in  all  other  in- 
etances  the  price  should  be  projiortionately  reduced,  as  impcrfec- 
tioBs  place  them  below  the  standard  of  first  class,  .&c. 


btif*^ 


Schedule  B. — Hire  'yf  Labor^  Teams,  Wagons  and  Drivers. 


1.  Baling  long  forage,         . 

2.  Shelling  and  bagg  ig  corn,  sacks   fur- 

nished by  the  go'  ^rnment, 

3.  Hauling,  .  .  .  . 

4.  Hauling  grain,  . 

5.  Hire    of    two-horsr    team,  wagon  and 

driver,  rations  fu  aislied  by  owner,  . 

6.  Hire  of  same,  ratic    s  furnished  by  the 

government,     .  .  .  . 

?.  Hir  ■    of   four-horse    team,   wa^on    and 

drivee,  rations  fu    lished  by  owner,  . 

8.  Hire  of  same,  ratic    s  furnished  by  the 

government,     .  .  .  . 

9.  Hire   of   six-horse     earn,    wagon    and 

driver,  rations  fui  <ished  by  owner,    . 

10.  Hire  of  same,  ratic  i3  furnished  by  the 

government,     . 

11.  Hire  of  laborer,  ra  Ions  furnished  by 

owner,  .  .  .  . 

12.  Hire  of  same,  raiioas  furnisljed  by  the 

government.     .  .      •       . 

13.  Hire   of     same,    rauons    and  clothing 

furnished    by  owner, 

14.  Hire  of  Same,  rations  firnished  by  the 

government,     ,  ,  .  . 

15.  Hire  of  tsanisters,  rn.iion3  furnished  by 

the  government, 

15.  Hire  of  laborer  clothing  and  rations 
furnished  by  gove-nment, 

IT.  Hire  of  same,  ciothnig  and  rations  fur- 
nished by  owner, 

18.  Hire  of  t^amo,  rations  only  furnished 
l)y  government,  , 


QUANTITY  &  TIME. 


PRICE. 


Pel 

100  lbs. 

$   50 

(( 

56  " 

05 

(( 

cwt.  p.  mile, 

08 

(( 

bush  *' 

04 

(( 

day, 

10  00 

u 

5  00 

(( 

13  00 

u 

6  50 

a 

16  00 

«'. 

8  00 

n 

2  00 

H 

1  50 

«i 

month, 

50  00 

i( 

.£ 

30  00 

H 

(1 

40  00 

Per 

year, 

300  GO 

(( 

(( 

550  GO 

u 

u 

400  CO- 

Upon  farther  conead'  i-ation,  we  have  concluded  to  value  pheaf 
vfits,  bay  and  blade  f  ider,  east  of  ike  Blve  Ridue  mountain s^ 
"Vfhen  baled,  at  %b  per  00  pounds,  and  ud baled  at  $4  50  per  lOQ 
pounds.  . 

S.  W    IIUEARD, 

Kob't  Gibb  ;NEY, 
Wai.  B.  Harricon, 
Com?)iissioners  Jor  Va. 
By  ordei 

a  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


22 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  )  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  161.  )  Richmond,  Dec.  10,  1863. 

The  following  Order  is  published  as  an  amendment  of  the 
Regulations  in  respect  to  Impressments,  as  a  substitute  for  para- 
graph II,  section  5,  General  Orders,  No.  37,  current  series.  All 
officers  and  agents  who  have  been  or  shall  be  empowered  to  make 
impressments,  shall  conform  to  the  provisions  of  this  Order,  in 
respect  to  impressments  hereafter  to  be  made,  and  also  in  cases 
where  the  property  may  have  been  heretofore  taken,  and  the 
price  has  not  been  fully  adjusted: 

In  the  event  of  the  refusal  by  the  owner,  his  bailie,  or  other 
agent,  of  the  price  offered,  the  impressing  oflSeer  shall  proceed  to 
settle  the  compensation  to  be  paid,  according  to  the  first  section 
of  the  act  of  March  26th,  1863,  if  the  property  impressed  be- 
longs to  an  owner  who  has  grown,  raised  or  produced  the  same, 
or  who  holds  or  has  purchased  the  same  for  his  own  use  or  con- 
sumption. But  if  the  property  impressed  has  not  been  grown, 
raised  or  produced  by  the  owner,  nor  been  purchased  for  his  own 
use  or  consumption,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  impressing  oflBcer 
to  offer  the  price  fixed  by  the  commissioners,  who  may  be  ap- 
pointed under  the  5th  section  of  the  Act  of  Congress  of  the  26th 
March,  1863,  to  regulate  impressmentv^ ;  and  if  the  owner  shall 
object  to  receive  the  said  price,  as  not  being  a  just  compensation, 
it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  impressing  officer  to  cause  the  value  to 
be  ascertained  by  the  appointment  of  a  board  similar  to  that  de- 
signated in  the  first  section  of  the  act  aforesaid;  that  is,  by  the 
judgment  of  two  loyal  and  disinterested  citizens  of  the  county  or 
parish  in  which  such  impressments  may  be  made — one  to  be  se- 
lected by  the  owner,  and  one  by  the  impressing  officer — and  in 
the  event  of  their  disagreement,  these  two  shall  choose  an  um- 
pire of  like  qualification.  The  persons  thus  selected  shall  pro- 
ceed to  assess  just  compensation  for  the  property  so  impressed, 
whether  the  absolute  ownership  or  the  temporary  use  thereof 
only  is  required:  provided,  however,  if  the  impressing  officer  in 
any  of  the  cases  mentioned  shall  believe  that  the  appraisement  is 
fair  or  just,  he  sliall  endorse  upon  it  his  approval ;  and  the  pro- 
perty in  tlie  object  impressed  shall  thereupon  bo  vested  in  the 
Confederate  S  ates  :  but  if  he  does  not  approve  the  appraisement 
as  aforesaid,  he  shall  endorse  upon  the  appraisement  his  objec- 
tion thereto,  and  deliver  the  same,  with  a  receipt  for  the  proper- 
ty impressed,  to  the  owner,  his  bailiee,  agent  or  attorney,  and,  as 
soon  as  practicable,  forward  a  copy  of  the  receipt  and  appraise- 
ment, and  his  endorsement  thereon,  to  the  board  of  appraisers, 
appointed  by  the  President  and  Governor  of  the  State,  who  shall 
revise  the  same,  and  make  a  final  valuation,  so  as  to  give  just 


22'i 

conipensatton  for  the  property  taken ;  which  valuation  shall  be 
paid  by  the  proper  department  for  the  use  of  which  the  property 
was  taken,  on  the  certificate  of  the  appraisers,  as  provided  in  the 
acts  of  Congress  on  the  subject. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  |  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gin'l's  Office, 

No.  162.  j  Richmond,  Dec.  11,  1863. 

I.  Quartermasters  at  posts  will  afford  all  theaecommodafion  in 
their  power  to  persons  in  charge  of  stock,  traveling  under  the 
orders  of  ofBcers  of  Lt.  Col.  A.  H.Cole's  department.  Forage 
and  shelter  for  the  animals  and  subsistence  for  the  men  will  be 
furnished  by  them  upon  the  requisition  of  any  officer,  or  his  au- 
thorized ae;ent,  of  Col.  Cole's  department,  who  will  receipt  for 
the  same. 

II.  To  preveut  claims  for  commutation  of  rations  which  may 
have  been  previously  drawn,  surgeons  in  charge  of  hospitals  will 
endorse  on  the  furlough  of  enlisted  men  who  leave  a  hospital  on 
furlough,  a  statement  of  the  number  of  days  and  the  dates  he 
has  drawn  rations  for  the  enlisted  men. 

By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  \  Adj't  and  Lvsp'tt  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  163.  >  Richmond,  Dee.  23, 1863. 

The  attention  of  officers  of  the  army  is  again  directed  to  para- 
graph VII,  General  Orders,  No.  28,  requiring  that  in  all  recom- 
mendarions  for  miliary  appointments,  the  name  of  the  State  be 
given  t)f  which  the  person  is  a  citizen.  No  applications  will 
hereafter  receive  attention,  in  which  this  rule  is  not  observed. 
By  order. 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  ]  Adj't  and  Insp'r  Gen'l's  Office, 

No.  164.  3  Richmond,  Dec  29, 1863. 

I.  Paragraph  II,  General  Orders,  No.  159,  current  series,  ig 
amended  ns  follows : 

II.  The  hospital  ration  is  fixed,  until  further  orders,  at  the 
same  rates  of  issues  now  made  to  soldiers  in  the  field.  If  a 
greater  allowance  is  required  ot  any  particular  article,  not  is- 
sued to  troops  in  the  field,  special  requisitions  must  be  made 
therefor. 

By  order, 

S.  COOPER, 
Adjutant  and  Inspector  General, 


ANALYTICAL  INDEX 


TO 


General  Orders  from  War  Department, 


FOR  THE  YEAR 


1863. 


CONFEDERATE  STATES  OF  AMERICA, 

War  Department, 

Adjutant  and  Inspector  General's  Office, 

Richmond,  Ka.,  January  Ithy  1864. 

The  following  ANALYTICAL  Index  of  Genernl  Orders,  issued  from 
ibis  Office,  for  the  year  1863,  lias  been  prepared  under  my  au- 
thority, by  Mr.  Robinson  of  this  Offica,  and  is  believed  to  be  com- 
plete. 

S.  COOPER, 
Ud^ttiHt  and  Infptctvr  Oxngrat. 


INDEX. 


No 

ABSExVT  WITHOUT  LEAVE— pardon  to  those  who  are,  .  109 

soldint's — shall  not  receive  pay  for  such  lime,     .  108 

"           officers  to  collect,  must  report,        .                 .  122 

"  a  list  of  all,    to    be    sent   to    Conscript   Bu- 

:  'an,  .  .  .  .         125,  130 

ACT    OF       ONGRESS— Abolishing    supernumerary   Com- 

mi  saries  and  Q.  Masters,  .  .  .70 

allow  .ng  hospital  accommodations  to  officers,       .  71 

amei  iing  Act  to  organize  Military  Courts,                   .  108 

appo  itment  of  Military  Storekeepers,  .                 .  108 

estab  ishing  Nitre  and  Mining  Bureau,         .                 .  85 

exeniV>ting  mail  contractors  and  cairiers,                .  44 
forbi    iing  employment  of  able  bodied   men  as  clerks 

by     ommissaries  and  quarterm  ifeters,         .                  .  105 

grant!  ig  furloughs  and  discharges,       .                 .  108 
imprissments,                   ....  37,  53 

local  defence  and  special  service,         .                 .  86 

office  s  and  men  selected  to  civil  positions,                   .  48 

organizing  engineer  troops,   ...  66 

Pay  iiid  allowances  of  deceased  soldier*.    .                 .  108 

pay  T  .  soldiers  not  legally  mustered  into  C.  S.  servicd,  108 

prevent  absence  of  officers  and  men  without  leave,  108 
prevt  nt  fraud  in  quartermaster's  and  commissary  de- 

paitments,            ....  108 

prohr)iting  punishment  of  soldiers  by  whipping,         .  44 
Quar  ermastei  General  to  have  rank,  &c.,  of  Brigadier 

Ge.eral,               ....  108 
restrji  ning  General  officers  from    appointing  officers 

to  <ertain  regiments,  and  allowing  elections,             .  108 

repen  ing  act  exempting  overseers,       .                 .  108 

retaliiition,         .....  108 

slaves,  taken  by,  or  employed  in,  army,                .  25 

transfer  from  army  to  navy,             .                 .                 .  108 
transportation  to  persons, mustere  1  into  tervice  and  to 

whom  furlough.s  may  be  granted,      .                  .  108 
ACT  OF  VIRGINIA  LEGISLATURE— Voting  in  camp,  38 
ACCOUTREMENTS— Quarterly  returns  of,  must  be  prompt- 
ly rendered,                   ....  148 
schedule  of  cost  of,                 ,                 .                 .  1.58 


230 

No. 

ADJUTANTS — To  report  all  slaves  in   army  without  writ- 
ten authority,  ,  .  .59 

AGENTS — Of  commissary  departments,         (See  Comm;3'y  Dep't) 
of  quartermaster's  reoartnient,     (See  Quartkrjujt's  Dep't.) 

AIDES-DE-CAMP — Volunt  jer   must  be  exempt  from  con- 
scription, .  ^  .  .  107 

AMBULANCES — Wagons,  &c.,  for  hospital  supplies,  34,  45 

APPOINTMENTS— Applicants  for,  must  show  vacancy.  &c.,  8 

applications  for,  mus    give  State,  &:c.,    .  28,  163 

of  officers  vested  on]>  in  the  President,  .  28 

ARMS — Abandoned  by  strs  .;glers,  who  will  collect,  .       119 

and  munitions  of  wa,  captured  by  Partizan  Rani.ers,         47 
captured,  exchange  of,  forbidden  .  .  19 

captured,  to  be  turneti  over   to  chief  ordnance  ofiicer,         19 
private,  price  of,  .  .  .9 

private,  price  of,  how  paid,  ,  .  9 

quarterly  "returns"  of,  must  be  promptly  made,  .       148 

schedule  of,  cost  of,  .  .  158 

ARMY  REGULATIONS— Certain  paragraphs  revoked,       .         20 
certain  paragraphs  suspended,    .  .  32 

"  "  amended,  .  44.  121 

ARMY  SUPPLIES — No  more  to  be  received  under  late  call 

of  the  President,  .  .  .92 

to  be  purchased  or  impressed,      .  .  92 

ARSENALS,  ARMORIES  AND  DEPOTS— certain,  under 

immediate  charge  of  War  Department.  .  13 

officers  in  charge  of,  must  report  detailed  men,  33 

ARTILLERY— And  ammunition,  "returns"  of,  .  20 

field,  to  be  parked,  .  .  .7 

men  may  be  transferred  to  cavalry,  whenever,  67 

public  horses  to  be  given  to,         .  .  •        60 

AUTHORITIES    TO    RAISE  TROOPS— From    conscripts, 

revoked,  .  .    .  .18 

what,  may  be  granted,  .  .  18 

BONDS — Of  quartermaster's  and  commissaries  must  accom- 
pany their  acceptances,  .  .121 

BRIGADIER  GENERALS— Must  see  that  the  «  returns"  of 

arms,  accoutrements,  &c.,  are  promptly  rendered,  148 

not  to  be  "  detached,"  except,     .                          .  28 

CADETS — Examination  of,  for  promotion,       .                         .  38 
to   report   to    Adjutant  and  Inspector  General   or  be 

"dropped,"          .                          .                          .  132 

CAMP  OF  INSTRUCTION— For  conscripts  at  Petersburg,  4 

CAVALRY— Companies  must  be  kept  with  regiments,  7 
men  who  cannot  provide  horses  may  be  transferred  to 

infantry  or  artillery,      .  .  .67 

CITIZENS  and  others,  held  in  confinement,  "reports"  of,  33 

must  not  jnii'chaSj  clothingf  cr  amis  {torn  soldiers,      .  122 


231 


No. 
61 


CITIZENS — rights  of,  regarding  estray  horses  and  mules, 
CITIZENSHIP— Passports  of,  force  dro  to, 
CLERK — iVo  able  bodied  man   to  be  i^niploj^ed  as,  in  quar- 
termaster's or  commissary  dei/artments, 
CLOTHING— Of  deceased  soldiers,      . 

of  detailed  soldiers  of  disbanded  companies, 

of  soldiers,  citizens  must  not  purchase, 

of         "         may  be  commuted,  when,    . 

of         "         cost  of, 
COLONELS — Must  not  be  detached,  except,  . 
COMMISSARIES — Absent  under  orders,  allowed  expenses 

certain,  "  dropped," 

for  sales  to  officers, 

must  *' issue"  on/y  to  men  actually  present  for  duty, 

not  to  employ  an  able  bodied  man  as  clerk, 

of  post,  to  receive  tax  in  kind,     . 

regimental,  abolished, 

to  a.ssist  in  collecting  arms  left  by  stragglers,    . 

when  to  take  rank  and  pay, 
COMMISSARY  DEPARTxMENT— Agents   of,   allowed  ex 

penses,  when  absent  under  orders, 
COMMISSARY  SERGEANTS— How  paid, 
COMMISSIONERS— Under  "Impressment  Act,"   report  of, 
for  Virginia  and  Georgia, 

under  "  Impressment  Act,"  report  of,  for  Virginia, 

[99,  115,  129,  144,  160 

COMMUTATION— Of  rutions    to    men  on   furlough,    how 
paid, 
of  rations  to  disabled  soldiers, 
of  rations  to  men  on  f  irlough,  regulations  for, 
COMPANIES — New,  cannot  be  formed  from  other,     . 
having  maximum,  cannot  receive  recruits, 
commanders  of,  to  make   monthly  reports  of  all   fur- 
loughed  men, 


105 
49,  93 

80 
122 
136 
146 

28 
157 
121 

70 
149 
105 
132 

70 
119 
121 

157 
124 

65 


96 
160 
162 
125 
125 

130 


disbanded, 


(See  Disbanded 


CONSCRIl^TS- Army  officers  not  to  interfere  with, 

assiijn  (lents  of,  to  be  made  by  Conscript  Bureau, 
canxot  join  "  local  defence"  companies, 
commandant  of,  to  make  reports  of,  &c., 
commandant  of  may  detail   disabled  officers  and  sol- 
diers as  bridge  guards,  ^. 
detn  led,  leaving  their  work,  how  treated, 
emp.oyed  on  railroads,  to  remain  until, 
harf  I   treatment  to,  any  officer   guilty  of,   to   b«  dis- 

chirged, 
instructions  for  examination  of, 
in  certain  counties,  to  repair  to  Petersburg, 
re-examined,  to  be,  (according  to  Goneral  Order 'SQ.) 


1  •■ 

14; 

150 
16 

137 
3<' 


1 

22 
4 

30 


232 

No 
CONSCRIPTS— rolls  of,  to  be  made  monthly,  .  1 

sent  to  camps  or  regiments,  how  "discharged,"  .        107 

regiments,  must  be  received,        .  .  107 

surgeons  for  examining,  how  obtained,  .     9,  15 

"  for  examining,  pay  of,  .  107,  124 

volunteer,  cannot,  in,  companies  formed   since  1st  of 

April,  1862,  .  .  .       125 

volunteering  in  new  companies  to  be  demanded,  125 

"  must  exhibit  certificate,    .  .       125 

not  allowed  furloughs,  .  .  135 

CONSCRIPTION— Discharged  soldiers  liable  to,  .         89 

officers   of,  to  assist  in   collecting  arms    left  by  straj{- 

glers,       .  .  .  .119 

officers  of,  allowsd   expenses   when  absent  under  or- 
ders, .  .  .  133 
officers  of,  must  not  take  conscripts  as  assistants  with- 
out detailed  by  War  Department,       .                          .       135 
persons  liable  to,  volunteering,  may  have  fur'ough,  113 
persons   liable    to,   volunteering,   must   report    them- 
selves,    .                          .                          .                         .113 
who  are  liable  to,                           .                         .           1,  22,  98 
CONTRACTS— For  iron,  lead,  &c.,  to  be  rigidly  enforced,  14 
violated,  detailed  men  to  be  withdrawn,             .  14 
CONTRACTORS — Must   not  employ  government  workmen 

without  proper  discharge  from  lormer  service,  .         30 

paper,  may  send  agents  to  armies  and  posts,     ,  80 

property  of,  exempt  from  impressment,  .         49 

CORRESPONDENCE— Must  be  through  regular  channel,  3 

officers  must  endorse  their  opinions  on,  .  3 

prescribed  mode  of,  .  .  .28 

COURIERS  AND  GUIDES— Infantry,  allowed  40  cents  per 

day  for  horse,     .  .  .77 

number  of,  allowed,  .  .  .7 

to  he  obtained  from  infantry,        .  .  7 

COURTS  OF  ENQUIRY— Case  of  Blocker,  Capt.  H.  F.,      .         40 

case  of  Chilton,  Col.  R.  H.,  .  .  64 

"    of  Lovell,  Gen.  Mansfield,  .  .       352 

"    of  McLean,  Lt.  Col.  E.  E.,  .  .  81 

"    of  Nail,  Lt.  Thomas,  .  .         29 

''    of  Norris,  Maj.  Wm.,  .  .      '  112 

COUIU'  MARTIAL— Of  Anderson,  Lt.  M.  G.,  .         41 

Tf  Arnold,  Capt.  J.  Q,,  .  68 

of  Ballentine,  Lt.  H.  J.,    .  .  .  .         96 

of  Barlow,  Priv   T.  W.,  .  .  139 

of  Bell,  Capt.  J.  W.,  .  .  .         55 

of  Brown,  Lt.  E.  M.  P.,  ,  .  139 

of  Cannon,  Priv.  T.  W.,   .  .  .       130 

of  Chesser,  Lt.  Jas.  M.,  .  ,  139 


288 


COURT  MARTIAL-CoNTiNDED. 

of  Childress,  Priv.  John  Q,, 

of  Clarke.  Priv.  Wm.  G., 

of  Countis,  Lt.  J.  B., 

of  Cross,  As8t.  Surgeon  Edward, 

of  Duncan,  Private  John, 

of  Edgeworth,  Private  C.      . 

of  Edwards,  Lieut.  Col.  A.  C. 

of  Floweree,  Lieut.  Col.  C.  C. 

of  Garner,  Private  Wm. 

of  Gibson,  Lieut.  J.  W. 

of  Gore,  Lieut.  W.  J. 

of  Griswold,  Major  E. 

of  tjuy,  Lieut.  Lsrael  P. 

of  Harlee,  Captain  R.  Z. 

of  Hnmmell,  Lieut   E.  H, 

of  Hollis,  Private  Daniel,     . 

of  Humphreys,  Private  J.  R. 

of  Hunter,  Col.  F.  M. 

of  Johnson,  Private  F.  W. 

of  Kent,  Private  Z.  M. 

of  Kent,  Private  C.  H. 

of  Latrobe,  Captain  H.  B. 

of  Lock  hart,  Asst.  Surgeon  W 

of  Long,  Captain  R.  Y.  L. 

of  Maguire,  Captain  J.  J. 

of  Marks,  Major  R.  M. 

of  Martin,  Lieut.  J.  K. 

of  Mathews,  Private  Allen, 

of  iMayo,  Col.  R.  M. 

of  MeClung,  Lieut.  E.  S. 

of  McCutchen,  Private  G.  S. 

of  MoCoun,  Major  Gen.  J.  P. 

of  Mitchell,  Captain  G.  J). 

of  Mormon,  Private  George, 

of  Nunnally,  Private  Gnf. 

of  Orey,  Major  Kirk,     . 

of  O.itlaw,  Private  Stephen, 

of  P'uitt,  Lieut.  W.  C. 

of  r^ed.  Captain  W.  S. 

of  P.  ckett,  Private  M 

of  Lice,  Lieut.  L.  A. 

of  R  iberts,  Private  T. 

of  Rowan,  Captain  Wm.  S. 

of  Ruanells,  Private  Major, 

of  Saunders.  Lieut.  Robert  W. 

of  Simmons,  Lieut.  J.  R. 

of  S  nith,  Private  Henry, 

of  Sockton.  Adjt.  J.  N. 

of  Tiylor,  Private  Henry, 


No. 

t 

;     95 

• 

, 

95 

.   IQO 

•d, 

• 

54 
.   139 

97 
;   139 

91 
.   139 

50 
.   139 

47 
95 

139 
.  '  139 

139 

95 

r. 

35 

.   139 
100 
139 
27 
95 
139 
100 

35 

56 

78 

156 

139 

52 

83 

100-120 

79 
95 
42 
139 
139 
95 

.   .   95 
139 
139 

72 
139 

63 
139 

• 

95 
43 

139 

264 

COURT  MARTIAL— Continued.  No. 

of  Under  wood,, Serg't  Abner,                •                          .  139 

of  Whitehead,  Private  John,                               .  106 
of  Wilder,  Private  James  T.                .                          .27 

of  Wood,  Captain  W.  W.  W.                              .  73 

of  Wood,  Private  T.  P.                           .                          .  139 

of  Wortham,  Lieut.  J.  J.            .                          .  139 

of  Youngblood,  Lieut.  J.  M.                 .                         .  134 

Must  not  forfeit  dues  of  Laundress,   .                          .  17 

COURTS. 

Military,  .  (See  Military  Courts.) 

DECEASED  SOLDIERS,  .  (See  Soldibkb.) 

DEPARTMENT— 

of  Richmond, — What  constitutes,        .                          .  34 

of  Southern  Virginia. — What  constitutes,       .  34 

of  North  Carolina, — What  constitutes,                          .  34 

DEPOTS—  -  (See  Ar-enalb  &c.) 

For  Captured  Slaves,                  .                          .  25 
Quartermaster — at  certain  points  under  special  con- 
trol of  Q   a''.  General,                       .                            .     13,114 
Quartermaster — officers    at — must  not   be   changed 

except  by  department,           .                            .  114 

Quartermaster — Issues  from,                .                          .  13 

DESERTERS— 

A  list  of  all — to  be  sent  to  Conscript  Bureau,            .  125 

Not  allowed  furloughs,  on  any  pretext,           .  135 

Officers  to. collect— must  report,          .                          .  122 

Who  are  not,       ...  19 

Who  have  joined  other  companies  to  be  returned,  19 

DESERTION— 

Punishment  for,                            .                           .  44- 

detached- 
No  Brie.  Gen.  or  Col.  will  be — without,                    .  28 
DETACHMENTS— 

Unaccompanied  by  Quartermasters,  how  supplied,  155 
DETAIL— 

Of  Cavalry  for  Couriers  and  Guid-es,  to  be  discon- 
tinued, .  .  .7 
DETAILED— 

Men  at  Arsenals,  &c.,— Reports  must  be  made  as  t» 

pay,  &c.;  of,                =                         •                         -  33 
Men—Pay  of,                               =                          .                   V5,  149 

"       of  disbanded  companies ;  how  paid,               .  80 

"                  "                      "              how  "discharged,-"'  80 

"                 "                      '             clothing  for,  SO 
'«                  "                      "              to    be    reported    to 

enrolling  officer,                       .                          .  80 

Men,  whenever  fit  for  duty,  to  be  returned,                .  96 

Soldiers  not  regularly — must  be  returned,  94 


2M 

DIRECTORS—  No. 

Meflical,  .  (See  Mkdical  Directory.) 

DISBANDED— 

Companies — Detailed  men  of — how  paid,  "  dischar- 

fiea,"  &c.         ...  80 

DISBANDING— 

Of  Reg'ts.  Bntt'ns  or  Companies  prohibited,  .  28 

DISBURSING  OFFICERS—  (See  also  Quartermasters. 

Cliarges  against — to  be  reported  to  A.  and  I.  G.  15 

Must  not  be  arrested,  .  15 

Not  to  pay  Army  officers,  without  evidence  of  ap- 
pointment, .  .  .28 
Not  to  pay  absent  officers,  without  proper  authority 

for  absence,  .  .  U8 

Who  are  to  be  recommended  as,  .  121 

DISCHARGES— 

Of  Conscripts  sent  to  Camps  or  Reg'ts — how  made,  107 

How  given,  .  .  .14,  51,  69 

Notices  of — to  be  forwarded,  .  .  51,  69 

Recommendations   for — will  only   be  given  by  Ex- 
amining Boards,         .  .  ,  141 
To  be  considered  as  conditional,                      .  89 
To  soldiers  who  have  furnished  substitutes,               ,              87 
ELECTION— 

A  majority  of  votes  necessary  to — of  oilicers,  80 

EMPLOYEES— 

Government^ — must  not  leave  work,  .  30 

"  leaving  work  to  be  reported  to  enrolling 

officer,  .  .  30 

"  Not  to  be  removed  by,.enrolling  officer,  32 

"  leaving  work,   not   to   employed,  wuh- 

o\u  a  "discharge"  from  former  employ  32 

ENGINEER  OFFICERS— 

Allowe'l  expenses,  when  absent  under  orders,  49 

Duties  of,  .'  .     90,  104 

Of  Corps,  not  to  assume  command  of  Eng.  Troops,  104 

Rnnk  of — as  between  those  of  Corps  and  Troop,  104 

Rfgnlations  for — in  the  field,  .  .90 

Senior — of  Armies,  responsible  for  the  duties  of,  90 

*'  •'       will  re^^ommend  assignments  of 

other,  .  .  90 

"  '*       will  rep  rt  plans,  kc,  to  Eng. 

Bureau,         .  .  90 

ENGINEER  TROOPS— 

Duti.»s  of,  .  .    *  .  104 

Organization  of,  .  .  66 

"  Returns"  of — to  be  made  monthly,  .  66 

ENROLLED— 

Persons  may  be — wherever  found,  .  98 

.  Principal  to  be — whenever  subptiiute  deserts,  98 


286 


(See  Conscription  also.)  No. 


12 
141 
135 

116 
116 


104 

20 

9 

148 


ENROLLING  OFFICERS— 

Duty  of, 

Entitled  to  fuel,  &c.       . 
Must  keep  register  of  furloughed  soldiers, 
Not  to  take  conscripts  as  assistants,    . 
To  take    charge  of  all  absentees,  and  forward  to 
commands,  .  .  . 

To  be  attached  to  each  military  department, 
Wlien  soldier's  furlough  expire?,  will  order,  &c.       .   141,  157 
When  furloughed  soldiei  is  neglected,  will  send,  &c.  141 

ENTRENCHING  TOOLS— To  be  furnished  by  engineer 

department, 
EQUIPMENTS— Cavalry,  captured  by  Partizan  Ranger>>, 
How  paid  for,  = 

Private,  Price  of, 

Quarterly  'Returns"  of-^must  be  promptly  rendered, 
EXAMINERS— BOARD  OF— For   Conscripts,  hov/  com- 
posed,.      ,  ,         9,  15 
For  Conscripts,  instructions  to,                         ,  22 
"              "            pay  of,                           .                           .   107,  124 
For  sick  and  wounded  at  hospital,  how  composed,  €9 
For  sick  and  wounded  at  hospital,  must  send  certi- 
ficates to  Surgeon  General,               «                          .69 
For  sick  and  wounded  at  hospital,  nnust  send  notices 

to  A.  and  I.  G.  0.      .  .  .69 

For  sick  and  wounded  at  hospital,  can't  grant  leaves 

of  absence  to  oflicers,  .  •  69 

EXCHANGE  NOTICE— Of  prisoners,         •  5,58,  123,  143 

EXEMPTIONS— Doubtful  cases  of— how  decided,  1 

For  other  than  permanent   disability,    must   be    re- 
examined,    ,  .  .  135 
Of  mail  contractors  and  carriers,         .                          .  44 
Of  overseers,       .                            .                           .                108,  116 
Of  route  agents,              .                          .                    '      ,  7 
Of  State  officers,                             .                             .                           108 
Of  such  persons  as  President  may  direct,                   .            108 
Passports  of  citizenship,  no  claim  to,              .                          153 
Temporary — to  conscrijj's,                     .                          .              39 
When  to  take  place,                   .                          .  1 
What  are  not  sufficient    auses  for,      .                          .              22 
EX-OFFICERS—                                                            (See  OrFiCERS.) 
FORAGE — To  whom  issued  a  d  how  much,                           151,  163 
FRAUD — Act  to  prevent — in  C..  M.  and  Com.  Departm't?,            108 
FREIGHT— Messenger  must  tavel  with  his,                        .                2 
Transportation  for — hov   obtained,     .                         .               2 
'•                  of — gen'  -al  rules  for,               .                            2 
FUEL— Enrolling  officers,  cm; tied  to,           .                          .              12 
For  R.  R.  must  not  be  ip.terfered  with,  or  need,                     58 
FURLOUGHS— Commutation  )f,                    .                         .             50 
''                    if,  flue  dec'd  poldiers,                          31 


287 

No. 

FURLOl  GHS — Commutation  of,  d  le  promoted  soldiers,  31 

"         of  rations    o  inen  on,  when  paid,  96 

E   tension  of,  .  .      _  69,96,141 

H   w  K'vanted,  '      .  14,  51,  69 

N   tices  of,  to  be  forwarded,  .  51,  69,  130 

R   3ommendations  for  extens  on  of —who  will  make,  141,  157 
St  diers  on — how  they  must  proceed,  .  141 

Sc  diers  on — must  not  go  ins  :\e  enemy's  lines,  141 

Tj    persons  liable  to  conscrij    ion,  volunteering,  113 

GENER    LS — Brigadier — not  to  be  detached,  except,  28 

Bi^adier — must  have  "retun  i' of  ordnance  prompt- 

y  rendered,  .  148 

Ct  nmanding — must  not  refo:  sentence  by  Court  Mar- 

ial  to  Executive,  except,  .  .  139 

L(  igstreet's  command,  ,  34 

fllDES— beef,  price  of,       ....  34 

sheep,  to  be  turned  over  to  Q  M.'s,  .  .119 

HONOR -roll  of,  .  .  ,  .  131 

HORSES — courier  allowed  40c.  per  day  for,  .  .         77. 

es'  ay — or  left  by  enemy  on  t  ums,         .  .  61 

fo     artillery,  to    be   inipress'^'i  or  purchased  only  by 

■Injor  Cole's  officers,  .  .  142 

fo    commissary  Department,  to  be  impressed  only  by 

hat  department,      ,  .  .  142 

pu  die — to  be  given  to  artilb  ry,  .  60 

HOSPITAL — laundresses,     .  .  (See  Laundress.) 

rat  ons,  .  .  .62,  159,  1G4 

rations  for  attendants,  .  .  59 

su  <eons,  .  .  (See  Surgeons.) 

HOSPIT/  LS— board  of  examiners   it,         .  ,  69 

fo}  prisoners  of  war.  on  sam'   footing  as  other,  159 

pe   eral — control  of,     .  .  .  2S 

LMPRES   MENT — articles  of— con  ealed,  may  be  searched 

)r,  .  .  92 

foi  field   transportation,  to    l.a    made    exclusively  by 

lajor  Cole's  officers.  .  .  142 

foj  Commissary  Department,  to  be  made  only  by  that 

epartment,  .  142 

of  •oniractor's  property,  not  f  ilowed,  .       '         49 

of   vhole  of  one  article,  how    ax  is  paid,      .  117 

regulations  for,  .  .     31,37,39,53,144,161 

res.  alations  for,  of  iron,  its  m)ie3  and  factories,  85 

"  for,  of  slaves.         ;  *  138 

SO'  edule  of  prices  for  Georg  \,  .  .  65 

"       for  Virpir  a,         65,  99,  115,  129,  144,  160 

"       for  South    "Carolina,  .  128 

INFANT  lY — soldiers  may  bo  tran,  ferred  to  cavalry,  when- 

ver,  .  .  .67 

INSPEC.  ORS— Medical,  .         (See  iMbdical  Ikspectors.)' 


288 

No. 
IRON— ^its  mines  and  factories,  may  be  impressed,  leased  or 

purchased,  .  .  .85 

JOHNS,  SURG.  E.  W.— rel'eved,  and  orders  revoked,  23 

LAUNDRESS — dues   of — to  be    excepted  from  sentence  of 

court  martial,                           .                            .  17 

hospital — pay  of,           .                           ^                           ,  62 

LEATHER — for  Ordnance    Department,  must  not  be  inter- 
fered with,                               .                          .  28 

LOCAL  DEFENCE — conscripts  joining — to  be   discharged 

and  conscripted,           .                          .                          .  150 

nitre  workmen  will  not  be  taken  for,  except,       ^  127 

transfers  to,  from  general  service,  not  allowed,  135 
troops  for,           .                            ...       (See  TeooPS.) 

MEDICAL— directors,  hov/  appointed,         .                           .  23 
directors,   of  armies    not   to    interfere   with   general 

hospital,         ...  28 
directors,  title  of  "Asst."  not  allowed,                       .  124 
inspectors,  how  appointed,     .                          .  ^  119 
inspectors,  title  of  "Asst."  not  allowed,           '          .  124 
ollRcers,  not  to  furnish  certificates  for  light  dnty,  7 
purveyors,  must  forward  reports  to  Surgeon  General,  23 
purveyors,  to  receive  instructions  from  Surgeon  Gene- 
ral,                  .                           .                          '.  23 
M[LITARY — commanders  must  not  appoint  army  officers,  28 
state  of  certain  persons,  claimed  as  deserters,          .  19 
MILITARY  COURTS— for  Gen.  Pembertjn's  corps,  17 
for  Gen.  Hardee's  corps,         .                          .  17 
may  be  organized  for  ('epartments  also,                    .    ^  108 
proceedings  of,  to   be  reviewed  by  corps  command- 
ers,                 .                          .                         .  11 
proceedings  of,  to  be  transmitted  to  A.  &  L  G.  O.,  11 
to  be  governed  as  other  courts  martial,                       .  11 
NITRE  AND  MINING  BUREAU— act  organizing,  88 
to  enforce  contracts,                  .                          ^  14 
to  pay  traveling  expenses  of  officers,                                S^,  102 
to  impress  iron,  &c.,    .                          .                          .85 
to  impress  copper,  coal,  &c.,                             .  133 
workmen  of,  will   not  be  taken  for  "  local  defence," 

except,                         .                            .                           ,  127 

OFFICERS— absent  without  leave,  dropped,  .  "1* 
absent,  how  paid,  .  .  .  28,  57 
auy,  failing  to  make  ordnance    "return3,"'to  be  court 

niartialed,     ,                           .                          ,  148 

army,  to  give  facilities  to  .igents  for  paper  material,  80 
at  arsenals  and  depots,  to  report  to  commanding  gen- 
eral,                           .                         .                          .13 
at  arsenals  and  depots,  subject  only  to  orders  of  War 

Department,                           ,                         c  13 


I 


239 

OFFICERS— Continued  : 

No. 
attention  of  commaiiciing.  called  to  G.  O.,  No.  12,  1862,  149 
bonded,  transfer  of,  not  allowed  without,  .  8 

charge    of  government  work,  must   not    keep   soldier 

witliout  regular  detail,  .  .  93 

disbursiiij^',        .  .  (See  DISBURSING  OfkiCERS.) 

eFecfeii  to  civil  positions,  may  resign,  .  48 

election  of,  number  of  votes  necessHry  to  an,  .  80 

Engineer,  .  (See  ENGINEER  OFFICERS.) 

enrolling.  .  .  (See  ENROLLING  OfFICBRB.) 

ex,  liable  to  conscription,  .  1 

ex.  to  be  at  once  enrolled,  .  .  24 

ex.  when  enrolled,  may  choose  his  company,  24 

general,  must  not  receive  conscripts  as  volunteer  aids,      107 
general,  or  otlier,  mu?t  return  all  absentees,  116 

impressment,  may  search  f(jr  concealed  articles,    .  92 

invalid,  not  to  be  furnis.heci  with   certificates  for  light 

duty,  .  .  •         .  7 

leaves  ol  absence  for,  how  obtained,  69.  96.  141 

medical,  .  (See  Medical  Officers.) 

making  reports  must  give  fact$  only,  76 

military,  forbid  to  interfere  with  R.  R's.,       .  2 

must  certify  on  their  pay  accounts,  that  they  have  not 

been  absent  without  leave,  .  .  108 

not  to  be  assigned    lo   duty  until    appointment  is   re- 
ceived, .  .         .  .  121 
not  to  be  relieved,  and  ordered  to  report  to  A.  &  I.  G. 

O.,  unless,  .  .  .  141 

of  reorganized  commands,  rank  of,  .  24 

ordnance,     .  .  (See  Ordnance  Officers.) 

payment  of,  regulations  for,  .  .  28,  57 

railroad,  must  have  full  control,  .  2,  26 

rank  of,  how  determined,  .  .  24 

regimental,  must  take  up  on  their  muster  rolls  all  con- 
scripts sent  them,  .  .  107 
sales  to,  how  made,  .  .  .70 
sick  and  wounded,  allowed  hospital  accommodations,  71 
signal,  .  .  (See  &IGNAL  Officbrs.) 
when  eutitled  to  pay,                          .                         .121 

OPERATORS—        .  (See  Telegraph.) 

ORDERS— of  A.  &  I.  G.  have  force  of  Regulations,  147 

of  A.  &  1.  G.,  how  authenticated,                   .  147 
ORDNANCE  DEPARTMENT— to  furnish  arms  to  engineer 

troops,            .                          ,                          .  104 
ORDNANCE  OFFICERS— absent  under  ordcra,   to   be  al- 
lowed expenses,      .                        .    '                     .  67 
acting,  to  remain  mn  duty  till  relieved,          .      .  33 
acting,  pay  of,             .                       .                        .  12 


240 

ORDNANCE  OFFICERS— Co:  tinued: 

No. 
assistant,  to  chief,  of  artr  es,  .  •  110 

brigade  and  district.  m\  n  give  assistance  in  havi  ig 

"  returns "  made,     .  .  .  148 

chief,  of  armies,  to   be   r  moved  or  assigned  only    )y 

War  Department,  .  ,  84 

chief,  to  report  all  who  fi   I  to  make  "returns,"       .  148 

commissions  for,  v/hen  ai  d  how  issued,        ,  12 

designation  of  chief,  and  )ther8,        .  .  J.10 

distribution  of,  in  grades.        .  .  110 

distribution  of,  for  duty,  ».  .  110 

do  not  form  part  of  perse   al  staff,  .  84 

order  assigning  or  remo"   ng,  to  be  sent  to  Ordnai  oe 

Bureau,  .  .  .84 

•  other  than  chief,  may  be  assigned  or  removed  by  .  e- 

partment  commanders         .  .  84 

pay  of  acting,  .  .  .12 

who  are,  .    •  ■  .  33 

who   hay'3  passed  exam  nation   may  be    placed    m 

duty,  •  .  .12 

ORDNANCE  SERGEANTS— rust  not  make  returns  to  C  d- 

nance  Bureau,  .  .  59 

ORDNANCE  AND  STORES-  xccounts  paid  for,  other  tl  m 
allowed  in  manual,  w  11  not  be  allowed  in  set  e- 
ment,  .  .  .154 

at  certain  points,  how  dr  wn,  .  13 

captured  by  partizan  ran   ers,  how  paid  for,  .  20 

of  regiments    or  battalic   3,  to    be    reported   by  cc  n- 

manding  officers,  .  .  59 

reported  unserviceable,    >  be  inspected,  .  21 

requisition  for,  to  supply  leficiency,  must  show,  &(  ,  21 

returns  of,  .  ,  ,20 

what,  are  allowed  to  be     urchased  or  fabricated,  154 

OVERSEERS— on  what  terms    xempted,  .  108,116 

PAPER — contractors  for,  authc  ized  to   send  agents    to     .i- 

mies  and  posts,         .  .  .80 

PARDON — a   gereral,  by  the    'resident   to  soldiers  abs  nt 

without  leave,  .  .  109 

PARTISAN  RANGERS— right    of,  .  .  47 

to  he  placed  under  same    egulations  as  other  troopt  82 

PASSPORTS — of  citizenship,  f  Jm  State  Department,  do    ot 

"exempt,"    .  .  .  153 

not  required  on  furlough    granted  from  general  hos  -i- 

tals,  .  .  .  .69 

PAy-=-of  absent  officers,  reguh  ions  for,  .  2  ,  57,  126 

of  commissary  sergeantgj  ,  .  124 

of  detailed  men,  .  .3  ?,  75,  149 

of  6Bgin69Y  irck^iy     .  .  *  ^6 


241 

PAY—CoiJTLNUED  :  : 

No. 

of  sick  and  wounded  in  liospital,  .  130 
of  soldiers  absent  without  leave,  not  allowed  for  such 

time,  .  .  .108 

of  soldiers  not  legally  mustered  into  service,  108 

of  telegraph  operator?,              .                          ,   '"  88 

Wiien  officers  are  entitled  to,               .                           .  12J 

POSTS — commandants   of,  to    report   all    slaves   serving  at, 

without  written  authority,  59 

when  provost  marshals  are  needed,  to  be  reported,  74 

POTATOES— of  tax.  to  be  delivered  to  hospitals,  124 

PRISONERS  OF  WAR— hospitals  for,  how  managed,  159 

PROVISION    RETURNS— commanding    oflicer    must    ex-  « 

amine,            .                           .  149 
PROVOST  MARSHALS— appointments  of,                        .  74 
no  civilian  can  be,                     .                            .  74 
to  report,  monthly,  all  civilians  and  otners  in  confine- 
ment,            ...  33 

PUBLIC  PROPERTY— how    accounted   for,  and   how    dis- 
posed of,  .  .  .6 
PURVEYORS—        .                        .          (See  Medical  Purveyors.) 

QUARTERMASTERS— certain,  dropped,                           .  121 

certain,  to  be  allowed  furlough  for  execution  of  bond,  121 

chief,  to  report  all  subordinate,  to  Q.  M.  Gen.,        .  118 

depot,  will  furnish  grain  sacks,  &c.,                .  103 

"  will  rej)ort  themselves  to  Q.  M.  Gen  ,  .  118 
how  they  will  supply  "Detachments"  unaccompanied 

by,  .  .  .  155 
must  keep  hospital  ambulances  and   wagons  in  good 

order,  .        .  .  .34 

must  furnish  accommodations  for  stock  under  charge 

of  Col.  Cole's  officers,  .  .  162 
not  to  pay  absenteed,  who  have  insufficient  authority 

for  absence,  .  .  .15,  28 

not  to  pay  officers  or  men,  for  such  time  as  they  have 

been  absent  without  leave,                         .  108 

not  to  employ  able  bodied  men  as  clerks.                  .  105 

obliged  to, receive  "Tax  in  kind,"  when  ofl^ered,  117 
of  field  transportation,  absent  under  orders,  allowed 

expenses,       .                           .                           .  135 

paying  absent  officers,  to  give  certificates,  .  28,  57 
paying    absent   officers,   must    demand    authority   for 

absence,         .                           .                           ,  1,),  28 

post,  will  report  themselves  tp  Q.  M.  Gen  ,              .  118 

post,  to  receive  "  Tax  in  kind,"                        .  132 

regimental,  to  perlbrm  tlulies  of  commissary,          ,  70 

to  assist  in  collecting  arms  left  by  stragglers,  119 

to  furnish  transportation  for  tax  in  kind,                  ,  111 

11 


242 

QUARTERMASTERS— Continued  : 

No. 

to  receive  exemption  pay  from  overseers,    ,  IJG 

to  keep  their  accounts  of  tax  in  kind  separate,       .  117 

to  pay  commutation  of  furloughs,  and  at  what  rate,  20 

to  take  charge  of  money  of  deceased  soldiers,     .  67 

to  reeeiVtj  hides,                        .                         .  IIP 
to  make  requisitions  for  field  transportation  on  Chief 

of  "  District,"         .                         .                         .  142 

will  furnish  transportation  for  paper  material,  80 

will  only  allow  a  two  horse  wagon  for  hospital  use,  45 

who  become  detached,  dropped.     .                          .  70 

will  report  themselves  to  Q,  AI.  Gen.,           .  118 

•  when  to  take  rank  and  pay,                 .                          .  121 
QUARTERMASTERS  DEPARTMENT— not  to  interfere 

with  leather  for  Ordnance  Department,    .  58 

to  issue  fuel  to  enrolling  officers,       .                           .  12 

to  furnish  horses,  wagons,  &c.,  to  Eng.  troop?,  104 

QUARTERMASTERS'  DEPOTS—  .  (See  Depots.) 

QUARTERMASTER  GENERAL— authorized  to  "  District" 

the  C.  S.,                    .                   '        .                          .  142 

to  appoint  agents  to  purchase  wool,               ,  6 

to  rank  as  Brig.  General,                      .                          •  108 

RAIL  ROADS— control  of,               .                        .  2,  26 

fuel  for,  not  to  be  interfered  with,    .                         .  58 

military  officers  must  not  interfere  with,       .  2 

not  to  be  blocked  up  unnecessarily,                              .  2 

transportation  by,  how  obtained  for  troops  and  freight,  2 
troops  or   freight  moving  out  of  regular  routine  of, 

how  time  is  fixed,                  .                           .  2 

RAIL    ROAD    OFFICERS— remissness   on    pan  of,   to   be 

leported,  .  .  .2 

RANK — ol  officers,  under  Cons    Act,  how  ileterrnined,  24 

of  (<fficer>  in  Engineer  Troop  and  Eng.  Corps.  104 

RATIONS — c-cmima tiding  offi<  ers,  have  no  power  to  change,  103 

commutation  of.  to  dit-abled  .'-oldiers,                            .  ICO 

coinmutation  of,  regulations  for,                       .  162 

for  sick  and  wounded,                          .                          .  59 

for  sick  and  wounded,  value  of,                      .  62 
hospital,                        .                        .                        .     169,  164 

of  men  on  furlough,  when  paid,                     .  96 

of  salt,  what  is,            .                          .  103 
to   be  issued   to  "discharged"  soldiers,  at  way-side 

hospitals,       ...  96 

REPORTS— official,  must  give  facts  only,                            .  76 

RETALIATION — resolutions  of  C  ngress  concerning,  108 

ROUTE  AGENTS— exemption  of,  and  how,          .  7 

when  appointment  fails,  or  term  expires,  to  report.  7 

SALT— what  is  "  Ration"  of                         .   .                      .  103 


f>43 

No. 

SHOEMAKERS— Jetaileil  pay  of,    .  !  75 

SIGNAL  OFFICERS— must  ''report"  through  senior  officer,         10 

to  be  assigned  by  A.  and  I.  G.,  ,  *  10 

who  are,  .  .  ,  ]3 

SLAVES — captured  by,  or  employed  in  army,  depots  for,  ?•'> 

captured  by.  or  employed  in  army,  reports  of,  .  25 

regulations  for  impressme^nt  of,  »  138 

serving  in  army  or  hospital  without  writteri  authority, 

to  be,  &c.,  .  ,  .59 

SOLDIERS — absent  without  leave,  doing  grovernment  work, 

to  bo  returned  to  commanils,         .                           .  9-1 

absent  without  leave,  to  receive  no  pay  for  such  time,  108 

clothing  for,  cost  of,                  .                           ,  MS 
deceased,  clothing  of,  how  disposed  of,                     .         49,  9.*^ 

"          effects  of,                   ,                            .  67 

disabled,  may  be  detailed  for  guarding  bridges,  &c.,  137 

"  commutation  of  lations  to,  .  150 
discharged,  payments  to,  .  ,  51,  69 
detailed,                      .                        (See  Detailed  Soldiers.) 

elected  to  civil  positions,  to  be  dircliarged,               .  48 
Infantry,  acting  as  courier,  allowed  40  cents  per  dny, 

for  horse,       ...  77 

not  to  be  employed  as  servants,        .                          .  20 

"          pimished  by  whipping,                   .  44 

not  fit  for  '•  Discharge,"  may  be  recommended  for  detail,  9'5 

of  (lisi)ande(l  companies  on  detail,   .                           .  80 

on  furlough,  must  report  to  nearest  enrolling  officer,  111 

"         must  not  go  inside  enemy's  lines,        .  141 

over.'taying  furlough  to  be  reported,               ,  130 

sick  and  wounded,  payments  to,       .                           .  130 

to  receive  pay  for  clothing,  under  certain  circumstances,  138 

who  have  furnished  substitutes,  how  discharged,  S7 

STAFF  APPOINTMENTS— rules  to  be  obierved  in  mak- 

ins£,  .  .  .        •        8,  28,  163 

STOREKEEPERS— military,  act  authorizing  additional,  108 

STRAGGLP2RS— and  deserters,  to  be  ar.ested   by  enrolling 

officers,  .  .  ,1 

SUBSTITUTES — a  list   of  all,  to   be   sent   to    Conscription 

Bureau,  .  .  .  125 

deserting,  the  principal  liable,  ,  ,  88 

discharges  of,  held  as  conditional,  .  89 

how  enlisted  .  ,  ,87 

medical  examination  of,  .  .  141 

when  within  conscript  age,  principal  to  bo  also  held,  1 

SUPPLIES— For  Army,  .  (See  Army  Supplies  ) 

in  transitu  to  market,  not  to  be  impressed,  .  144 

•SURGEONS — cannot  extend  furloughs,  .  Ofi 

hou«e,  to  visit  patients  daily,  .  ,  69 


S44 

surgeons—Continued  : 

No. 
of  hospitals,  to  report  all   slaves,  without  written  au- 
thority of  master,  .  .  59 
of  hospitals,  to  make  separate  provision  ''Returns,"  59 
to  examine  conscripts,  two  may  com      Vom  same  dis- 
trict, when,               .                         .•                        .           9,  15 
to  examine  conscripts,  pay  of,                        .                 107,  124 
to  endorse  on  furlough,  the  number  of  Ration  :  drawn,      162 
to  turn  over  effects  of  deceased  soldiers,  and  how,  67 
TAX  IN  KIND — regulations  for  payment  of,                      .             117 
TELEGRAPH— operators,  pay  of,    ,                          .  88 
TRANSFER— from  army  to  navy,               .                         .             108 
from  "  General"  to  "  Local"  service,  not  allowed,                135 
of  bonded  officers,  not  allowed,  except,        .  8 
TRANSPORTATION— allowed  once  on  furloughs,          .             108 
for  troops  and  freight,  how  obtained,             .                               2 
for  private  property,  act  to  prevent  obtaining,        .              108 
field,  placed  entirely  under  charge  of  Col.  Cole,                  142 
field,  inspection  of  how  made,           .                          .142 
what  deduction    shall    be    made   for,   on    impressed 

articles,  .  .  •  129 

TROOPS — authority  to  raise,  revoked,  except,         .  18 

authority  to  raise,  what  may  be  granted,  .  18 

called  out  by  the  Governor  of  Virginia  to  be  mustered 

_  into  service,  .  .  .4 

"  detatchments"   of,   unaccompanied  by  Q    M.,  how 

supplied,  .  .  .  155 

engineer,         .  ,  (See  Engineer  Troops  ) 

for  ^' local  defence,"  how  raided  and  organized,  86 

"  "  "  regulaiians  governing,  .         86,  98 

not  to  exchange  their  arms  on  battlefield,     .  19 

VALOR  AND  SKILL — roll  of  honor,  for  those  distinguished 

for,     .  .  .  .131 

VOTING — in  army.  Act  of  Va.  Legislature,         .  38 

WHISKEY — Isssue  of;  forbidden,  except,  .  45 

WOOL — not  to  be  purchased  except  by  certain  officers.  6 


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